A man was shot and killed in a two-day standoff with police in Washington on Thursday morning, police said, and he was was wanted in Sacramento for real estate fraud.
The stand-off occurred at a home in the small town of Hoquiam, along Washington's coast, according to The Sacramento Bee. After the man, whose identity has not been revealed, was shot the house erupted in flames.
According to the report, the supervisor of the Sacramento District Attorney's real estate fraud unit, Michael Blazina, said warrants were issued for the man and a woman in 2004 on a real estate fraud case. Allegations were that the woman and man forged the name of another woman who was a co-owner on a piece of property in order for the pair to sell the real estate.
A warrant was issued charging the pair with filing a false or forged instrument, theft by false pretenses and identity theft.
"That warrant had been active and in the system for a little over eight years," said Blazina. "Through investigation we found a possible address in Washington, in Hoquiam. Contact was made with the authorities there."
The authorities went to the address on Tuesday. The woman was arrested on the warrant but the man showed a fake identification.
"They didn't have enough information at that time but further investigation was done and we believed that the male at the house was in fact the male wanted out of Sacramento," said Blaznia.
