SEQUIM — A Port Angeles man who survived a double shooting last week remained in serious condition Thursday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with bullets still lodged in his body.
Shane Loomis, 29, has undergone four surgeries since the March 31 incident in which his 35-year-old girlfriend, Noelle Staneart, was killed and the alleged gunman — her 46-year-old estranged husband, Rockie Staneart — took his own life several hours later.
The shooting occurred at about 10:20 a.m. at the landscape materials business owned by Noelle Staneart in east Sequim.
Loomis sustained four gunshot wounds to the head, neck and abdomen, said his maternal aunt, Sondra Groff of Sequim.
He was airlifted to Harborview, where surgeons have since removed a bullet from his chest and bullet fragments from his brain.
They declined to take out a bullet lodged in his head and one in his pelvis, which is pressing against his spinal column, Groff said.
The brain surgery required removing parts of Loomis’ left and right frontal lobes, she said.
Doctors have told family members that it’s too early to know the effect to his neurological functions.