SPOKANE, Wash. – The Spokane Police SWAT team has concluded an operation near Logan Elementary School where they arrested a suspect in connection with a second murder case.
Early last Friday morning, around 2 a.m., Spokane Police responded to a murder in the 2400 block of Hamilton. Upon arrival, they found a man dead in a front yard but had not yet identified a suspect.
They apprehended the suspect, 32-year-old Gunnar Doughty, who was found in a house on the 2200 block of North Morton, barricaded in a crawl space in the basement.
Spokane Police used various tools, including SWAT drones and robots inside the home, and eventually utilized chemical munitions to persuade Doughty to surrender peacefully.
The Spokane Police Department was present in the neighborhood for over two hours. While SWAT and the police command post have left the scene, investigators plan to stay for hours to collect evidence.
The identity of the deceased man in this case has not yet been released by the medical examiner’s office.
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