Shooting at Yakima, Wash., convenience store leaves 3 people dead - NPR

This surveillance video representation released by the Yakima Police Department shows a fishy sought successful a shooting astatine a convenience store successful Yakima, Wash., aboriginal connected Tuesday. Yakima Police Department Facebook hide caption

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This surveillance video representation released by the Yakima Police Department shows a fishy sought successful a shooting astatine a convenience store successful Yakima, Wash., aboriginal connected Tuesday.

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The fishy successful a shooting that near 3 radical dormant successful a Yakima, Wash., convenience store aboriginal Tuesday greeting is believed to person died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, constabulary said.

Law enforcement initiated a SWAT telephone astatine a location wherever the suspect, Jarid Haddock, 21, was suspected of being at, but helium was not determination astatine the time. Instead, helium was astatine a section Target store, Yakima Police Chief Matt Murray said.

Police said the fishy borrowed a woman's telephone to telephone his mother, and she overhead him making statements that helium killed the 3 radical and was going to termination himself, Murray said.

The pistillate got her telephone backmost and informed constabulary of what she heard and that helium was astatine a adjacent Pizza Hut. The suspect, who was traveling connected foot, was aboriginal recovered adjacent a marijuana store.

"I listened to that call," Murray said. "It's beauteous harrowing, and I person to truly convey her again due to the fact that she was truly courageous successful getting america there."

As constabulary approached, they heard gunshots and recovered Haddock dead. Authorities judge helium changeable himself, but nary 1 saw him transportation retired the act.

Police recovered a ample magnitude of ammunition and a semi-automatic handgun with Haddock, Murray said.

Medical responders attempted to prevention Haddock's life, but helium was pronounced dormant connected the scene.

Murray released a photo of Haddock from a surveillance video to the public. In a statement connected Twitter, Murray urged the nationalist to telephone 911 if they spotted Haddock and warned radical not to attack him.

During an aboriginal greeting news conference, Murray described the incidental arsenic 2 abstracted shootings — 1 astatine a Circle K convenience store astatine astir 3:30 a.m. and the different crossed the thoroughfare — carried retired by the aforesaid shooter and taking spot conscionable minutes apart.

"The archetypal shooting was wrong the [Circle K] store. Then helium came extracurricular and changeable a unfortunate extracurricular the store. And past helium went crossed the thoroughfare and seemingly changeable 1 much person," Murray said.

"It appears to beryllium a random situation," the main said. "There was nary evident struggle betwixt the parties. The antheral conscionable walked successful and started shooting."

Initially, constabulary believed determination whitethorn person been a 4th unfortunate astatine a adjacent Arco state station, but successful an update, Murray said Haddock had allegedly changeable into his ain car respective times aft locking himself out. The fishy fled successful a grey oregon metallic sedan that constabulary judge is simply a Chrysler 200.

"We're going to person to spell done the ceremonial process of identification, but everything that we spot and what helium said and what happened leads america to judge this is the aforesaid idiosyncratic that was progressive astatine these shootings astatine the Circle K and the Arco state presumption this morning," Murray said.

Haddock's household has been cooperative with constabulary and it is unclear if Haddock was ever astatine his parents' location the time of the shooting, Murray said.

Haddock did person a anterior record, Murray said. He was arrested successful March 2020 aft helium ran from constabulary who pulled him implicit for being successful a stolen car, according to The Associated Press.