Crime & Safety
Update: Woodinville Death is a Homicide, Sheriff's Office Says
King County Sheriff's Officers and Woodinville Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man found in his Woodinville home Friday afternoon, according to Sgt. Cindi West.
Update 9 p.m. Saturday: Detectives collected evidence inside the home Saturday, while search and rescue volunteers, some using metal detectors, looked for clues in a wooded area across the street, according to a report by KING-5 News.
Update 11:55 a.m. Saturday: Detectives say the Woodinville death is a homicide, according to King County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Cindi West. The King County Medical Examiner's Office will release the man's identity later and determine his cause of death. West also told Patch that at this time, they have no indication that anyone else in the area is in danger.
KOMO-News is reporting that the man was found in his garage and that he had suffered head trauma. West said Saturday she could not confirm those details.
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King County Sheriff's Officers and Woodinville Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man found in his Woodinville home Friday afternoon, according to Sgt. Cindi West. She said they are investigating the death as a homicide.
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Police got a call from the man's adult daughter at about 5:30 p.m. Friday, after she checked on him at his home on the 15000 block of NE 192nd Street. The woman hadn't heard from her father in a couple days, West said, and family members found him dead when they went inside. His identity has not yet been released.
West said she thought the man was in his 60s or 70s.
She said detectives would be on the scene most of the night and that as of Friday evening, they had more questions than answers.
Police are asking anyone who saw anything suspicious around the neighborhood recently to call them. West said neighbors should not be afraid but should remain alert.
"I can understand people being concerned but we have no information that leads us to believe that anyone else is in danger," West said.*
Patch will update this story as more information becomes available.
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*Editor's Note: The sentence above was amended after Sgt. Cindi West said Saturday there's no reason to believe others in the area are in danger.
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