Law enforcement investigating homicide tied to suspect in traffic stop shooting
Law enforcement is investigating a homicide that is tied to a suspect who was arrested earlier on Thursday during a traffic stop that involved shots being fired and a Sequim officer being injured.
According to the Peninsula Daily News, Bret Allen Kenney, 34, was booked into jail as a person of interest in the homicide, as well as for first-degree assault of an officer, disarming an officer and DUI drugs.
The homicide investigation came after a chaotic traffic stop in which a Sequim officer fired his weapon.
At 4:31 a.m., the officer pulled over a vehicle near the intersection of West Washington Street and North Third Avenue. A Clallam County sheriff’s deputy arrived to assist six minutes later.
At some point, the traffic stop escalated and became physical, according to Sequim City Attorney Kristina Nelson-Gross. That was when the Sequim officer fired his police weapon.
Both the officer and the suspect were hurt. The officer had minor to moderate injuries and was evaluated at the hospital and released. The suspect was taken into custody and then evaluated at the hospital before being released to police.
KIRO 7 later found out from the Kitsap Critical Incident Response Team, which comprises a multi-agency investigative team of 10 law enforcement agencies from Kitsap, Mason, and Clallam counties, that at 8:40 a.m., Port Angeles officers received a request to conduct a welfare check for a woman at a residence in the 100 block of Senz Road.
When officers arrived, they found a woman dead inside the home.
Investigators later learned the suspect involved in the shooting lived there.
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