Fallen Clark County deputy identified; hispanic shooting suspect remains at large

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The SW Washington Regional Major Crimes Team said Saturday evening that an
arrest warrant has been issued for 26-year-old Guillermo O. Raya in
connection with the shooting. Police said Raya is considered armed and
dangerous. Photo

During his service with the sheriff’s office, Brown also worked as a
corrections deputy and patrol deputy, the sheriff’s office said Saturday
afternoon. He served with the Washington State Department of Corrections
and as a reserve officer with the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office in
Montana. He was a military police officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from
1993 to 1995, according to investigative records.

Brown was one of three Clark County deputies who fatally shot Kevin
Peterson Jr., a 21-year-old Black man, during a planned drug sale in Hazel
Dell on the evening of Oct. 29.

Shot during surveillance
Friday’s shooting — which prompted a large law enforcement response and
manhunt — occurred shortly before 7 p.m. at The Pointe Apartments, in the
3500 block of Northeast 109th Avenue and just east of Interstate 205 in
Vancouver.

Brown was in his vehicle conducting surveillance at the complex, when
other law enforcement units in the area were unable to reach him on the
radio. Around the same time, someone heard what sounded like gunshots and
saw a man bleeding inside a vehicle. The person called 911, according to
an investigation update issued Saturday evening.

Two men and a woman were seen fleeing the area and were pursued by
officers. The fleeing vehicle crashed near Padden Parkway and I-205, and
the three suspects ran, investigators said.

The county’s 911 dispatch center and local law enforcement issued
bulletins Friday night asking residents to stay away from the area of I-
205 and Northeast 87th Street because of the search. Area residents were
encouraged to stay inside their homes, keep doors locked and report any
suspicious activity to 911.

Multiple law enforcement agencies responded for the manhunt and later
located Raya-Leon and Misty Raya, the update states.

Officers radioed that the two were taken into custody in a yard in the
8700 block of Northeast 76th Avenue at about 9:15 p.m. Friday. Clark
Regional Emergency Services Agency reported at 2:50 a.m. Saturday that the
ongoing law enforcement activity in the area had cleared.

Police also detained a woman in the apartment complex Friday night, and
another person was seen in the back of a Vancouver Police Department car.
Investigators have not released information about those detentions.

Witness accounts
David Joyner Jr., 44, lives in the apartment complex. He said he and his
wife were having dinner when he heard three pops. He got up and looked out
the window but didn’t see anyone. Joyner said it didn’t take him more than
30 seconds to get to the window. He said police started to arrive about a
minute and a half later.

Joyner went downstairs a few minutes later, he said, and saw neighbors
gathering outside. A neighbor told him someone had been shot.

He said he saw a red car that appeared to have been shot at with an
unconscious man inside. The man was placed in an ambulance and transported
to a hospital. Joyner said a minivan parked next to the car had also been
struck by bullets.

Shortly after 8:30 p.m., officers detained a woman who came out of one of
the buildings in the apartment complex with her hands up. She walked
across the parking lot to officers armed with a shield and tactical gear.
She was handcuffed and taken to a Vancouver Police Department car.

At about 9 p.m. Lower Columbia SWAT arrived in an armored vehicle and
began calling out to people inside that same building, demanding they come
out with their hands up.

SWAT remained outside the apartment building for over two hours, calling
for anyone else inside to come out. At 11:15 p.m., the officers approached
the building and broke out a unit’s front window. They then entered
through the front door. After several minutes, they exited with no one in
custody and left the scene.

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