SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – A man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Saturday night near East Valleyway Avenue and North Raymond Road after a reported hit-and-run and standoff with police.
According to a press release from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched to a reported hit-and-run in the 600 block of North Bowdish Road at around 11:10 p.m. A caller advised that a blue Dodge pickup rammed into two unoccupied, parked cars and then fled the scene.
A resident who was attempting to follow the Dodge also called 911, and advised police that the driver had hit a mailbox at another location. Near the intersection of North Van Marter Road and East Valleyway Avenue, the man got out of the pickup and approached the caller and “pulled a black, unknown object from his pocket and held it in his hand,” SCSO said. The witness then backed away…