SEATTLE (AP) — A man fatally stabbed four people in Washington state on Tuesday morning as sheriff’s deputies were on their way to hand him a domestic violence protection order, authorities said. The suspect died after being shot by an arriving deputy.
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said deputies initially responded at 8:40 a.m. to reports that a 32-year-old man was violating a no-contact order at a home on the Key Peninsula, northwest of Tacoma. They obtained a copy of the order, learned it was not valid because it had not been served on the man and headed to the address to provide it to him.
While they were en route, at about 9:30 a.m., additional reports came in that the man was stabbing people outside the home, the sheriff’s office said. The first deputy arrived within about three minutes and shot the suspect, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Officer Shelbie Boyd, a spokesperson for the Pierce County Force Investigation Team…