A patient who had been reported missing from Western State Hospital was found dead early Monday at a construction site on the hospital’s grounds, according to the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
The patient was identified by the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office as Pavel Vladimir Kolchik, 39, of Lakewood.
His body was discovered Jan. 5 by a construction crew working on the new forensic hospital project at Western State Hospital in Steilacoom…