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There are detailed accounts of the day Robert Endrizzi hid under a tree and began shooting at his neighbors. But there are no answers.
So far, apathy is winning primary
THE SHOOTOUT ON JIM CREEK ROAD
Voting ends Tuesday, but only 14 percent of the ballots in Snohomish County have been returned. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
EVERETT — The 2014 primary is nearly in the books. Voting ends Tuesday in what may rank as one of Snohomish County’s least enthralling midterm elections. At stake are decisions that could increase the price of products in Monroe, affect the debate on school funding in Olympia and test the power of incumbents in Congress. But voters are not rushing to help make them. As of Friday morning, 58,739 ballots had been returned — about 14 percent of the 418,289 ballots mailed out countywide. Snohomish County Auditor Carolyn Weikel predicted turnout will wind up around 32 percent, See APATHY, Page A5
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DAN BATES / THE HERALD
On a recent rainy morning, Snohomish County sheriff’s Sgt. Rob Martin walks past the spot, off to the left, where Robert Endrizzi hunkered in his yard in September 2012, shooting at people and vehicles on Jim Creek Road until he was killed by the SWAT team that Martin led.
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The day of the shootnew neighbors from a out on Jim Creek Road sniper nest he’d fashwas sunny and warm. ioned in his yard. The road meets It was high ground, Highway 530, northwhere he could see east of Arlington, and passing cars and watch runs nearly nine miles the massive police southeast to Jim Creek response. It took offiRobert Endrizzi cers hours to find him Naval Radio Station. It’s the kind of place in the brush. When they where people live when they did, they had no choice but to want land more than they want shoot him to death. neighbors. Dogs roam. Horses Nearly two years later, there graze. are few answers about what In early 2012, Robert Endrizzi prompted the 60-year-old joined them, moving into a Army veteran with mental blue rambler on eight acres. On health problems to do what he the Sunday of Labor Day weekSee SHOOTOUT, Page A6 end, he began shooting at his
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RLINGTON — The man was lying on his stomach in the grass under a fir tree. He cradled a .22-caliber Ruger semi-automatic rifle equipped with a scope, boxes of ammunition at his side.
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