The ex-wife, Amber Marie Rodriguez was shot Monday outside William Wiley Elementary School, and Huizar eventually was charged in her death, Benton County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Eisinger said in a news conference Tuesday. Washington state authorities had initially said the boy’s name was Roman Huizar, through the Amber Alert.Ī manhunt for Elias Huizar began Monday after his ex-wife was shot and killed that afternoon outside a school in West Richland, Washington, authorities said. Officers safely removed him, and he was put in the care of Oregon authorities, police said.

The 1-year-old boy, Roman Santos, for whom Washington state authorities had earlier issued an Amber Alert on the belief that Huizar had abducted him, was in the vehicle uninjured, Kennedy said. “As troopers contacted the suspect vehicle, the suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Kennedy said. Huizar’s vehicle eventually crashed into another vehicle, spun into a median and became immobile, Kennedy said. No one is known to be injured from that gunfire, he said. There was an exchange of gunfire at this location before the suspect vehicle fled again … on the interstate,” Kennedy said. “There was a minor collision (on the highway), and the suspect vehicle lost control.

Oregon State Police troopers began pursuing Elias Huizar after they saw a car he was driving on Interstate 5 near Eugene, Oregon, around 2:40 p.m. A former school resource officer in Washington state accused of killing his ex-wife and his girlfriend and kidnapping his 1-year-old son died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a vehicle chase by police in Oregon on Tuesday – and the child is safe in police care – authorities said.

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