Three people — a father, son and a 26-year-old woman — were shot dead and hidden at a Washington state compound known to house transients, according to police and new reports.
Concerned relatives who had not heard from Darrell Iverson, 57, and his son Jordan Iverson, 27, since Christmas Day discovered their bodies hidden on the property Monday, covered in tarps and other debris, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies responded to the scene, just southeast of Port Angeles, and discovered a woman’s body inside a locked shed on the property the next day, authorities said. She was identified as Tiffany May — Jordan’s girlfriend, who had been living at the family’s home, the Seattle Times reported.
Investigators believe all three were gunned down by someone they knew last week — possibly around Dec. 26 — and that many shots were fired, Detective Sgt. John Keegan of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office told the outlet.
Darrell Iverson’s sister, Wendy Peterson, told the paper she was clueless about why or how something like this would have occurred.
“We’re just kind of watching our backs, to be blunt about it,” Peterson said. “We don’t know what’s going on.”
Authorities were hunting for persons of interest, but the evidence indicates that only one shooter was involved, Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict told the Peninsula Daily News.
“The way that the scene presents itself, it appears it was done by somebody who is or was known to all three of the victims,” Benedict said. “The public always has to be alert, but this doesn’t appear to be a serial killer.”
Only one gun was used in the slayings, and that weapon has been recovered, he said.
Transient people often bunk down at the property where the bodies were found — but none of them were there when investigators showed up to comb the scene, according to Benedict.
Steve Lovik, who bought his property from the Iversons five years ago, told the outlet that the news of the slayings was disturbing — but he is relieved to hear that police don’t believe anyone else is in harm’s way.
“I grew up in Port Angeles,” Lovik said. “This doesn’t happen here.”
The deaths marked the first triple homicide the county, northwest of Seattle, has seen since at least the 1970s, according to local reports.
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