TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police say a long-term patient at Western Washington state’s psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of killing his 69-year-old roommate. Lakewood Police Department spokesperson Lt. Chris Lawler told The News Tribune Tuesday that Lakewood officers were called to Western State Hospital Friday evening after fire crews responded for a report of an unresponsive patient. The victim’s roommate was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder. A Department of Social and Health Services spokesperson said the victim had been a patient at the hospital since 1989. He said the man had been found not guilty by reason of insanity on a murder charge. The victim’s roommate had been there since 2014 on an assault charge.
Psychiatric hospital patient arrested in roommate’s death
