A Washington detective who retired shortly after being shot in the line of duty was found dead after a bizarre boating incident last Saturday.

The body of David Easterly, 67, was pulled out of Flathead Lake in Montana on Tuesday afternoon after he jumped off a boat into the water three days prior and never emerged, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. 4

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His body was turned over to the Montana State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy while the sheriff investigates the cause of death.

In March 2023, Easterly was shot twice while serving an eviction notice alongside two deputies in a Seattle neighborhood. Both bullets skirted past his protective vest, and he was struck in the left chest area and his left side.

An investigation concluded that the irate tenant, who t

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