UPDATE: September 27, 2025 at 4:52 p.m. Washington House Speaker Laurie Jinkins of Tacoma responded to the deadly shooting at Eastern State Hospital with the following statement: “It is horrifying to ...

Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake. (T85cr1ft19m1n - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113098625) A gunman shot and killed an ...

MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. — An armed man may be responsible for three separate incidents in Medical Lake last night, including a deadly shooting at Eastern State Hospital. Just after midnight on September ...

One hospital employee was killed in a shooting in Medical Lake over the weekend, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. The shooting happened at Eastern State Hospital early Saturday morning.

MEDICAL LAKE, Wash - A crime spree that started with a brush fire ended with an Eastern State Hospital employee dead and the man who killed him possibly shot to death by sheriff's deputies. The ...

MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. -- A man investigators say shot and killed an Eastern State Hospital employee died of suicide. According to the Spokane County Medical Examiner, 24-year-old Sethaniel Bunch shot ...

A man shot and killed an Eastern State Hospital employee in the hospital’s parking lot early Saturday morning. A Spokane County sheriff’s office deputy then shot and killed the suspect, according to ...

A 24-year-old shot and killed an Eastern State Hospital employee early Saturday morning in the parking lot of the Medical Lake psychiatric facility before fatally shooting himself, the Spokane County ...

A gunman shot and killed an employee at Eastern State Hospital early Saturday morning, according to the Spokane County sheriff’s office. The suspect exchanged gunfire with police and was also ...