by K.C. Mehaffey
Sept. 4 CHESAW — Sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday seized weapons and ammunition from a Chesaw residence, across a remote road from where a grouse hunter was shot and killed on Monday.
The hunter, whose wife was notified Tuesday night, was Michael R. Carrigan, 52, of Hoquiam, said Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers.
Rogers said no one has been arrested, but deputies searched a home at 470 Pontiac Ridge Road and questioned the residents, a father and son.
He said the house is about 100 yards from where Carrigan was shot.
Carrigan’s hunting partner, George R. Stover, 65, also of Hoquiam, near Aberdeen, told deputies that they were driving up Cow Camp Road at about 7 p.m. when they saw a grouse, and Carrigan got out of their truck to shoot it. After firing twice and missing, he heard another shot and turned to see Carrigan with blood on him fall to the ground. When Stover heard a second shot, he slid over to the driver’s seat and drove away, the sheriff said.
He called for help from another residence.
Rogers said when deputies arrived, Carrigan was dead.
He said deputies are investigating the scene as a homicide, and have been assisted by state Department of Fish and Wildlife officers, U.S. Border Patrol agents, and the Washington State Crime Lab.
“We seized a lot of evidence,” Rogers said. He said the homeowners are currently considered “persons of interest,” and the son was arrested on an unrelated warrant.
Exposing the Big Game 
Why is it when a hunter kills a non-hunter, it’s always labeled an “accident,” but if a non-hunter kills a hunter, it’s labeled a homicide? Yesterday two dirtbags drove right up to my fence and started firing. Did the police arrest them on attempted murder, on public endangerment, even on harassment? Nope.
Two people drove up to your house and started firing at you?! OMG! I am speechless.
And you’re right, it’s a total double standard.
Not necessarily “at me.” I heard them drive up to the fence. Then I heard three gigantic booms (by the way, it’s bow season), then my crazy nut husband walked down there. He reported that he saw them parked right next to the fence. That is within the 450-foot limit from buildings that it is legal to shoot. Not that the cops gave a fat rat’s ass.
Sorry, that it is ILLEGAL to shoot.
I do not dare even step foot on the BLM land a block away from my house-dove season is opening and you never know from which direction a bullet is coming.
Where are the ethical sportsmen? They are too afraid to speak out while the “slob” hunters are chasing coyotes with hounds in the woods, participating in killing contests or bounties, or shooting wildlife from the side of the road from the back of their pickup in between beer burps