GIG HARBOR, Wash. — A sheriff’s deputy accused of fatally shooting his wife’s parents was found dead in his home early Saturday, after an hours-long standoff with police, authorities said.
SWAT members reported that Pierce County Deputy Allen Myron, 49, was dead when they entered the house more than six hours after the standoff began, Tacoma police Detective Gretchen Aguirre said.
The SWAT team surrounding the house heard a single gunshot about 10 p.m. Friday but did not enter the house at that time, Aguirre said. Myron’s body was discovered shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday.
The mother-in-law called 911 at 6:48 p.m. Friday, then crawled out of the house and into the woods, Tacoma’s News Tribune reported.
She had been wounded and died after being flown by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
