A 72-year-old man was arrested Wednesday morning after he called 911 to report he’d choked his 80-year-old wife to death in their home near Ridgefield.
Clark County sheriff’s deputies responded at 11:12 a.m. to the 19400 block of Northwest 61st Avenue. Wayne Leonetti told dispatchers that he’d just killed his wife, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
Deputies contacted Leonetti outside of the house, and he was initially uncooperative. After a short standoff, deputies detained him, the sheriff’s office said.
When investigators went inside the house, they found a woman, who deputies identified as Alice Bolen, unresponsive. Despite medical aid from deputies, Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue and American Medical Response, Bolen was pronounced dead at the scene. No one else was inside the house, the news release states.
