The Shelton Police Department says in a social media statement Sunday morning that they responded to 3 separate shootings on Saturday, one of which was a fatality and left one person in critical condition.

 The first shooting occurred at approximately 8 p.m. in the vicinity of East Fir and Otter Streets. Responding officers located two victims at the scene, one who was critically injured and one who was deceased. From descriptions provided to officers on scene, a suspect car was identified and later located. Three individuals of interest were also identified and later taken into custody. 

The second shooting occurred at approximately 11:20 p.m. in the 200 block of East B Street. No injuries were reported at this location. 

The third shooting occurred at approximately 11:35 p.m. in the 1000 block of Ellinor Avenue. One injury was reported at this location. Two additional individuals were taken into custody after the third shooting.

 Shelton Police said, "We want to thank the Mason County Sheriff's Office and the Washington State Patrol for their continued assistance". 

The investigation is ongoing. We will share more information as it becomes available.

On April 12, 2023 at about 2:20 pm, the Grays Harbor Drug Task Force (GHDTF) coordinated a traffic stop with the Aberdeen and Hoquiam Police Departments on a suspected drug dealer making deliveries of illegal drugs in the Aberdeen/Hoquiam area.

The fifty-four-year-old Hoquiam man was arrested for driving with a revoked driver’s license and failing to have an ignition interlock device. The Hoquiam Police Department provided their Narcotics K-9 team for an exterior search of the vehicle for illegal drugs. 

 On Monday, April 10, Washington State Department of Transportation Air Search and Rescue crews successfully identified a missing 2006 Cessna T182 Turbo Skylane piloted by Rod Collen in the wooded forests near Queets. The pilot was discovered deceased inside the aircraft, likely dying upon impact. He had been missing for 36 days. The Collen family has been notified and briefed of today’s events.

Mr. Collen departed from the Tacoma Narrows Airport at 5:35 p.m., Monday, March 6, and his plane fell off radar abruptly 45 minutes later. WSDOT and partners searched a 36-square-mile wooded area for two weeks, and suspended the search on March 20 after finding no trace of the pilot or aircraft. On Friday, April 7, crews returned to the area using a new hypothesis of what may have happened to the plane provided by a search and rescue partner in British Columbia. Search conditions had improved greatly thanks to the warmer weather, which had made earlier efforts of locating a white plane difficult in snow. 

 Grays Harbor County Sheriffs Office says that they conducted a large-scale evidence  search on the weekend of March 25th.  The search was a coordinated search for evidence in a wooded area near West Fish Hatchery Rd (near Matlock) in Mason County. The search was conducted in reference to Grays Harbor County case 09-9617, the 2009 abduction and murder of Lindsey Baum. Lindsey was abducted on June 26th, 2009 while walking from a friend's house to her home in McCleary. In 2017, Lindsey's partial remains were located in a rural area near Ellensburg, Washington.

This search was conducted reference a tip provided during the extensive investigation into this case. 

The Sheriff's Office was assisted in these efforts by the following agencies: 
Grays Harbor County Emergency Management 
State SAR Planning Unit 
Kitsap County Search and Rescue 
King County Search and Rescue 
Mason County Search and Rescue 
Pierce County Search and Rescue 
Snohomish County Search and Rescue 
The Federal Bureau of Investigation 
The Attorney General's HITS Investigators 

 160 plus professionals and volunteers who made this search happen. The disappearance and murder of Lindsey Baum is still being actively investigated, and anyone with any information is encouraged to contact investigators by calling (360) 964-1799, or emailing your information to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..