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Five people were killed at a rural property near Forest Grove, Oregon, over the weekend, and the man investigators named as the suspect was found dead in Washington state before he could face charges.
Apparent suicide is the term officers use when an initial scene assessment points to a self-inflicted death, ahead of a formal medical examiner ruling.
By Sunday, that was the finding in Enumclaw, Washington, where Benjamin Charles Parker, 36, was discovered deceased inside a vehicle.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office said it first responded Saturday morning to reports of a vehicle fire at a property in a rural community near Forest Grove, about 25 miles west of Portland.
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