A 39-year-old was arrested on a murder charge, accused of killing another man in a Salmon Creek area motel last Friday.
The incident happened just after 9 p.m. on Jan. 27 at the Sunnyside Motel on Northeast Highway 99. Someone called 911 to report that the people in a neighboring room were fighting and someone “was screaming to call the police.”
Clark County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived and knocked on the door, saying they did not hear any noise coming from the room. They knocked several times, and about two minutes later someone answered the door.
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A probable cause document said inside, they found a man dead in the bathroom and another man – later identified as 39-year-old Jonathan Smith – crawling out of the room with blood on his face and hands.
Smith was later booked into the Clark County Jail on a second-degree murder charge.