A Camas-Washougal Fire Department captain has been booked into jail for allegedly murdering his wife. Just before 5 a.m. on Jan. 8, the Camas-Washougal Fire Department and Washougal Police Department responded to a call about a woman in "medical distress" at a home on 34th Street in Washougal. The caller, 49-year-old Kevin West, said his wife, 48-year-old Marcy West, was having a seizure and that she had stopped breathing, so he was trying CPR on her.
In the days after her death, several people close to the victim contacted law enforcement with concerns about potential issues in the relationship. They, too, worried her death was not of natural causes. The Clark County Sheriff's Office took over the investigation on Jan. 11. Kevin West is employed by the Camas-Washougal Fire Department, who responded to the scene, and Washougal PD handed off the case to deputies to avoid a conflict of interest.