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Published: September 4, 2008
ALGER, Wash. - Authorities on Wednesday were trying to determine what set off a shooting and stabbing rampage that left six people dead and four wounded, attacks they blame on a drug offender who was released from jail less than a month ago.
The mother of suspect Isaac Zamora said he is "desperately mentally ill" and had been living in the woods.
Dennise Zamora said one of those killed Tuesday was a sheriff's deputy who had tried to help their family for years.
Isaac Zamora, 28, was being held Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder and is being held on $5 million bail.
The dead included two construction workers killed in Alger and a motorist shot along I-5 near a rest stop.
"Some of these are just random shootings," Trooper Keith Leary said.
The Associated Press
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