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Police arrest 2 suspects after father of 2 found murdered, buried in shallow grave in Washington state
Police in Washington state have arrested two suspects in the murder of a father of two found dumped in a shallow grave near the Nisqually River.
The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating the homicide of Robert Erwin, a transient in his early 40s, whose body was found buried in a shallow grave near the Nisqually River June 4.
“Today, with the assistance of Yelm Police, Tumwater Police, and the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force, TCSO detectives have arrested and booked a man and woman in their mid-30’s from the Yelm area for Rendering Criminal Assistance, Tampering with Physical Evidence and Unlawful Disposal of Human Remains,” Lt. Mike Brooks said in a press release.
Erwin reportedly struggled with mental health issues and addiction, Amanda Douglass, Erwin’s sister, told FOX 13 Seattle. Despite his struggles, Douglass said he was loved by his family, including his two sons.
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The investigation into the murder of Robert Erwin continues in Washington state after officials arrest two potential suspects. (FOX 13 Seattle/Family handout)
Douglass told FOX 13 her brother’s case was initially treated as a missing person case and that the sheriff’s office did not have reason to believe it was a homicide case.
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Authorities have arrested two suspects in the murder of Robert Erwin, who was found buried in a shallow grave near the Nisqually River. (FOX 13 Seattle/Family handout)
“It’s a tremendous thing to navigate. To be told that your loved one was brutally murdered and just dumped,” Douglass told FOX 13 after news of her brother’s murder broke. “My brother wasn’t just a homeless scumbag living on the streets.”
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A family is searching for answers after Robert Erwin was found murdered and buried in a shallow grave in Yelm, Wash. (FOX 13 Seattle/Family handout)
The sheriff’s office has not released further details about the suspects or a motive for the murder.
The investigation remains ongoing, and officials urge anyone with information about the case to call 360-704-2740.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office for comment.
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HONOLULU — The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano reached 1,000 feet high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures at a national park and part of an important highway because of falling glassy volcanic fragments, including ash.
Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been dazzling residents and visitors for more than year with an on-and-off eruption that periodically sends fountains of lava soaring into the sky.
The fountaining that began Tuesday morning marked the eruption’s 43rd episode since it began in December 2024. A livestream showed two fountains of bright-red lava and smoke. It’s unclear how long the fountaining will last. Some episodes have lasted a few days and others a few hours.
Like other times, the molten rock was confined within Kilauea’s summit crater inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and hasn’t threatened homes or buildings.
But the lava fountains were creating trouble for neighboring communities and a highway where the volcanic fragments and ash, known as tephra, was falling. The tephra prompted temporary closures at the national park around the summit and a partial closure of Highway 11, an important route around the island, on either side of the park.
Hawaii County officials also opened a shelter at a district gymnasium for residents and tourists impacted by the road closure or falling tephra. There were no people using the shelter soon after it opened, said Tom Callis, a county spokesperson.
The National Weather Service issued an ashfall warning.
Volcanic tephra can irritate eyes, skin and the respiratory system, according to county officials. Tephra also can clog and cause other problems with water catchment collection systems, which are common in some parts of the Big Island, officials said.
Ash fell so heavily during a previous fountaining episode that some communities needed help from county civil defense workers to clean up ash that coated their homes, Callis said.
Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes.
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Smith’s employees are packing 5,000 meal kits for Clark County students through a partnership with Move for Hunger and Communities in Schools of Southern Nevada.
The event took place on March 10 at Decker Elementary School.
About 270 leaders from across seven states are also participating in building the kits. The donation is valued at approximately $50,000.
Feed The Need: Helping Southern Nevadans fight food insecurity
In the past year, Smith’s and its customers provided more than 16 million meals to nonprofit hunger-relief organizations throughout Nevada through donations.
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