Deputies arrest man suspected in double homicide on Pierce County island

A 63-year-old man suspected in a double homicide on Herron Island from Thursday was arrested in a Kent motel, according to Pierce County deputies. He was taken to a hospital with what deputies said is a self-inflicted injury.

Deputies were dispatched at about 4 p.m. to a residence in the 700 block of East Herron Boulevard. They had been asked to conduct “a welfare check on a man and woman who had not been seen and not shown up for work,” according to Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Carly Cappetto.

Deputies found a woman, 64, and a man, 39, dead inside the home. Both appeared to have knife wounds, Cappetto said…

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