OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A man killed in a shootout with law enforcement officers at his home in Littlerock this week has been identified by the Thurston County coroner's office as 70-year-old David W. Mack.
Neighbors told The Olympian he was a retired corrections officer from the Cedar Creek Corrections Center who had been behaving erratically since the recent death of his wife from cancer.
Officers responded to a report of a man with a rifle shooting randomly at cars Wednesday.
Sheriff's Lt. Greg Elwin said Mack refused to drop his weapon, went home and fired at
officers with a pistol from his back porch. He was shot by an officer and died at the scene..
