A man shot and killed an Eastern State Hospital employee in the hospital’s parking lot before a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot and killed the suspect early Saturday morning, according to the sheriff’s office.

The shooter, who made wild statements about aliens and an army coming, may have been involved in a brush fire and firing shots inside a Medical Lake home leading up to the fatal shooting, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

Firefighters responded shortly after midnight to a brush fire in the 200 block of state Route 902, according to the release. A caller reported talking to a man who made statements mentioning aliens. Firefighters asked deputies to respond because of a man who was yelling and acting aggressively, but the man left before deputies arrived, the s

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