{"id":45688,"date":"2020-04-28T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/driver-who-crashed-vehicle-into-train-in-kent-might-have-been-impaired\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:03:00","slug":"driver-who-crashed-vehicle-into-train-in-kent-might-have-been-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/driver-who-crashed-vehicle-into-train-in-kent-might-have-been-impaired\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver who crashed vehicle into train in Kent arrested for murder | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Police arrested a 37-year-old Tukwila man for investigation of murder in the April 22 vehicle-train collision as the man reportedly killed his female passenger by strangulation.<\/p>\n

“As detectives concluded their investigation, they observed injuries to the deceased female that were suspicious and inconsistent with the hit-and-run collision,” according to Kent Police news release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that strangulation was the cause of death.<\/p>\n

A 36-year-old Seattle woman was found in the passenger seat with life-threatening injuries and died at the scene despite life-saving efforts by officers and paramedics. The man and woman had a past relationship and were familiar with each other, police said.<\/p>\n

“It has now been confirmed that the female died of trauma not related to the collision and this has turned into a homicide investigation,” according to the release.<\/p>\n

The man might have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol when he went through a signal and crashed into a freight train that was moving at slow speed at the crossing near South 212th Street and 77th Avenue South<\/a>, according to police. A witness saw the vehicle leave the scene. <\/p>\n

Kent Police arrested the man after the collision for state Department of Corrections violations, said Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner. The man remains in custody.<\/p>\n

“There is a possibility of impairment, but we have not received lab results,” Kasner said. “Our investigation is ongoing.”<\/p>\n

Detectives are processing evidence and following leads to establish the sequence of events that led to the killing.<\/p>\n

After the collision with the train, officers spotted the vehicle nearby and performed a pursuit intervention technique (PIT maneuver) to stop the vehicle, Kasner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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