PORT LUDLOW — Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies found a woman dead and a man with a gunshot wound at a Port Ludlow home early this morning.
Medics and deputies responded to the home after receiving reports of a possible shooting, said Undersheriff Joe Nole.
Arriving at the scene, deputies found the woman’s body in an upstairs bedroom at 1771 Swansonville Road.
She was later identified as Virginia Guadalupe Castaneda, 20, of LaPush. An autopsy will be performed to determine cause of death, although Nole told the Peninsula Daily News that she probably died of strangulation.
The man, Evan Daniel Thompson, 33, who is regarded as a suspect in her death, was found in the backyard of the home with cuts on his wrists and a gunshot wound to the head, Nole said. The man was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, and he is on the Jefferson County jail roster as the subject of an investigation into second-degree murder.
The investigation is ongoing, and deputies and a State Patrol investigator remained at the scene Thursday afternoon.
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