FORKS — A Forks couple found dead in an apparent murder-suicide this morning were identified tonight as James and Brenda Grant.
Investigators believe that Grant shot his wife and then himself in a domestic dispute early this morning, Clallam County Sheriff’s Detective Lyman Moores said.
The investigation began after a five-hour standoff.
The incident was called in about 6 a.m. as a despondent man inside the home with his wife and two children, according to a news release from the Clallam County Sheriff’s Department.
One shot was heard at about 6 a.m., Mayor Bryon Monohon said.
Neither of the children, a boy and a girl, was injured. They were sleeping in another room in the home at the time of the killings, Moores said.
The children came out of the house about 11 a.m. as the Washington State Patrol SWAT team from Tacoma prepared to go inside.
“This is a very sad situation,” Monohon said.
“This is a well-known family in Forks.”
Brenda Grant is the former Brenda Justus, a member of a longtime family on the West End. Her brother, Scott, is a basketball coach at Forks High School.
Her husband was hired as a corrections officer at Clallam Bay Corrections Center only last Tuesday.
National Park Service rangers, the Department of Corrections, Clallam County sheriff’s deputies and troopers from the Washington State Patrol assisted the Forks Police Department, Monohon said.
