The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the Oct. 24, 2024 manner of death of a 61-year-old Kent man as homicide.<\/p>\n
Anthony Sperry died of acute pneumonia in the setting of immobility, left femoral neck fracture status post repair and blunt force injuries of left lower extremity, according to the Jan. 6 medical examiner’s office media report. The medical examiner’s initial report on Oct. 25, 2024, listed Sperry’s cause and manner of death as pending.<\/p>\n
“This remains an open death investigation,” said Brandyn Hull, spokesperson for the King County Sheriff’s Office, in a Jan. 7 email.<\/p>\n
Just after 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 24, deputies responded to a call of an unresponsive male at a residence in the 27100 block of 52nd Avenue <\/a>South<\/a>, Hull said. Firefighters were performing CPR, but Sperry died at the scene.<\/p>\n Hull had no other details about the incident.<\/p>\n “I’ll keep you posted if any updates become available to share,” Hull said.<\/p>\n Sperry was the founder and owner of Seattle Shuttle, according to his obituary posted on cadycremationservices.com. The Kent-based company provides transportation services in the Seattle area. Sperry’s home and business are in unincorporated King County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" King County Sheriff’s Office says incident ‘remains an open death investigation’ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":71839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-71838","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\/71838"}],"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=71838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71838"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}