Timeline of Saturday’s shootings

  • 2:22 p.m. — Forest Service Officer Kristine Fairbanks contacts State Patrol dispatch about a van in Dungeness Forks Campground south of Sequim with no license plates.

  • 2:30 p.m. — Fairbanks doesn’t respond to State Patrol when it radios her information on Shawn M. Roe. State Patrol and Clallam County Sheriff’s Department investigators are dispatched to the campground.

  • 3:10 p.m. — Investigators find Fairbanks dead.

  • 3:30 p.m. — Richard Ziegler is seen by his neighbor, Deborah Foster.

  • 4:30-5 p.m. — Ziegler is shot in his front lawn on Jonrey Lane, and his white pickup truck is stolen.

  • 5:45 p.m. — Roe’s van is spotted abandoned off of Youngquist Road.

  • About 9:30 p.m. — Roe enters Longhouse Market and Deli in Blyn. Security guard recognizes him from photographs distributed by investigators and phones 9-1-1.

  • About 9:33 p.m. — Clallam County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrive. Roe, who has gone outside from the store, fires once at them and they return fire. Roe is killed. Officers discover the white pickup registered to Ziegler which is parked at the gas pumps.

  • 10:40 p.m. — Investigators discover Ziegler’s body in his yard.
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