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"ALGER, Wash. -- Officials say a single gunman arrested Tuesday evening after a chase and shootout on Interstate 5 is suspected in the slaying of a Skagit County sheriff's deputy, five civilians and the wounding of two others, including a Washington State trooper.
State Department of Corrections officials identified the man as Isaac Zamora, 28, who had served a six-month Skagit County jail sentence for drug possession. Zamora was released Aug. 6 and was under community supervision by Corrections officers, spokesman Chad Lewis said.
Lewis said Zamora reported to his community corrections officer as scheduled and passed drug and alcohol tests. He was next scheduled to meet with his corrections officer on September 10, Lewis said.
Zamora's mother said she had tried repeatedly to get help for her son, whom she described as "desperately mentally ill."
"I would have rather that he would have taken it out on me. I would rather that they would have had to exterminate him, than to kill innocent people. I know that sounds extraordinary because he's my dear son, but it wasn't worth all those lives," Dennise Zamora told KOMO News.
"He destroyed the life and family of a lady that came to our rescue," she said. "Our lives will never be the same, just like all the other people, and there's no way for me to reach out to them.
"It was very apparent that he was very disturbed," said neighbor Shirley Wenrick. "The mother has tried for a long time to get them to lock him up and help him. "I've seen him running out in the field after rabbits and I said 'what are you doing?' And he said 'I'm going to get the rabbits and I'm going to kill them. I'm going to rip the skin right off of them.'"
Dennise said her son has been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome ever since the family's home burned down 12 to 14 years ago, and the symptoms have only worsened over the years. She said he had recently begun sleeping in the woods and breaking into a neighbor's home.
"I told the neighbors to call (police). They need to document it in case we could use it to commit him or something," she said.
And with one such call began Tuesday's violence, investigators said.
Sgt. Robert Goetz with the Everett Police Department said the incident began when the deputy responded to a disturbance call regarding an unwanted, possibly armed guest at a home in the 19800 block of Silver Creek Drive in Alger, Wash. at 2:19 p.m.
While investigating the shooting, the deputy was led to a home in the 19300 block of Bridle Place. At 4:15 p.m., the sheriff's office learned the deputy had come under fire.
When the deputy later failed to respond to radio calls from sheriff dispatchers, other deputies went to home and found her shot to death. Another person was also found shot to death in the home.
"Skagit County has suffered a terrible tragedy today," Skagit County Chief Deputy Will Reichardt said at a news conference Tuesday night. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of all of the victims."
Officials identified the slain deputy as 40-year-old Anne Jackson. She joined the sheriff's office in 2002 as an animal control officer and became a deputy in 2005.
At about the same Jackson was found dead, deputies learned the driver of a motorcycle had been shot at a nearby Shell gas station. He was taken to United General Hospital in Sedro-Woolley and was expected to survive.
Minutes later, a Washington state trooper in the area spotted the suspected gunman's car and chased him south on Interstate 5. Officials said the man was shooting wildly from his vehicle while speeding down the interstate at more than 90 mph.
A bullet grazed the arm of Trooper Troy Giddings while he was trying to position himself in front of the fleeing gunman in an attempt to stop him. The 42-year-old trooper drove himself to United General Hospital where he was treated and released.
An innocent motorist caught in the gunfire was killed near milepost 238.
The chase finally ended near Mount Vernon when the suspected gunman exited the interstate, pulled into a police station where he was taken into custody about 4:30 p.m.
Isaac Zamora is placed into custody in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Skagit Valley Herald, Scott Terrell)
Sue Baker was pulling out of a parking lot to drive home when the man stopped his truck near her vehicle.
"All of a sudden he pulled into the driveway and cop cars started pulling in front of me, pulling around me, pulling everywhere. They're all whipping out their guns," she said.
"When he got out he put his hands behind his head and when he laid down he put them straight out in front of him."
At 5 p.m. the owner of a home in the 19500 block of Silver Creek Road -- the street to which Jackson had initially responded -- returned from work and found two construction workers shot to death. Another person was found shot to death on a street in the vicinity, but the exact location was not known.
Investigators said at least two others suffered minor injuries during the shooting rampage. The other victims have not been identified.
More than 100 investigators from the state patrol, Skagit County Sheriff's Office, FBI, Snohomish County Sheriff's Office, Everett Police, Mount Vernon Police, and other agencies have converged on the various scenes and cordoned off large areas around the shooting locations.
Late Tuesday, Gov. Chris Gregoire said she is calling for an independent review of Zamora's criminal history and supervision.
"Due to the gravity of the situation, I am calling for an independent, third party review led by Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs President Colleen Wilson, and a prosecutor to be appointed by the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys," Gregoire said in a written statement. "I will be directing them to look into how this case was handled and provide an initial report to me within ten days."
Detectives have set up a tip line and are asking anyone with information about the shootings to call 360-419-3257."