Kent Police arrested a 19-year-old Covington man for investigation of vehicular homicide after his vehicle left Lake Fenwick Road, collided with a tree and power pole and killed his passenger.<\/p>\n
The single-vehicle crash was at about 4:22 a.m. Friday, Dec. 29in the 26400 block of Lake Fenwick <\/a>Road<\/a> on the West Hill.<\/p>\n “The initial stages of the investigation revealed that the suspect was (reportedly) intoxicated and speeding on Lake Fenwick Road,” according to a Dec. 29 Kent Police news release.<\/p>\n An 18-year-old SeaTac man died in the crash, according to police.<\/p>\n Officers responded to reports of a crash and found the Covington man standing near the vehicle. They discovered a passenger severely injured and trapped inside the vehicle. Puget Sound Fire firefighters extricated the man from the vehicle, but he died at the scene.<\/p>\n The Covington man received medical aid at the scene and then was arrested for investigation of vehicular homicide, according to police.<\/p>\n Police are asking for anyone with information about the crash to call the Kent PD tip line at 253-856-5808, email KPDTipline@kentwa.gov or call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police arrest Covington man, 19, for investigation of vehicular homicide in Lake Fenwick Road crash <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":67122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-67121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67121"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}