SPANGLE, Wash. — The second Spokane County sheriff's deputy shot during the attempted rescue at a home on South Smythe Road near Spangle has died, and the sheriff's office has now named both deputies: Mason Acheson, who died on November 4, and Parker Perry, a K-9 deputy whose end of watch was November 7 after days on life support while his family carried out his wish to donate his organs, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office and the Associated Press. Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has ordered flags at state facilities lowered to half-staff on Monday, November 9, in their honour.
Source: Associated Press, reporting the Spokane County Sheriff's Office
This is a major new development in the case Awaaz Punjab first reported on November 3 and updated on November 4. In those earlier reports, three people were dead at the scene — the suspected gunman and two members of his family — the first deputy had died late on Tuesday evening, and the second deputy was on life support, an organ donor who was not expected to survive. Neither deputy's name had been released. The sheriff's office identification on November 6, and Deputy Perry's death on November 7, close that chapter: five people are now dead in total, and every person killed in the Spangle shooting has been identified.
Source: Spokane County Sheriff's Office update, November 6, 2026
What happened on November 3 — the earlier development
The shooting unfolded on Tuesday afternoon, November 3, at a home in the 18700 block of South Smythe Road near Spangle, a small town about 18 miles south of Spokane in southern Spokane County. Deputies first responded at about 2:25 p.m. after a woman reported she had been shot by her brother, 37-year-old Ryan Larsen, according to the sheriff's office and court records reported by the Spokesman-Review. Deputies learned Larsen had an active felony warrant and feared other family members might still be inside the home, so a SWAT team moved in to attempt a rescue at about 3:15 p.m. As the deputies tried to force entry, they were met with gunfire from inside — an ambush, in the word used in court records — and Acheson and Perry were both critically wounded.
Source: The Spokesman-Review, via Police1
Three people were found dead at the scene, including Larsen. The Spokane County Medical Examiner has since determined that Ryan Larsen, 37, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Spokesman-Review reported. The two family members killed were identified as Suzanne Larsen, 72, who died of a gunshot wound to the head, and Rebecca Larsen, 45, who died of gunshot wounds and blunt-force injuries; both deaths were ruled homicides, and a family obituary identified them as Larsen's mother and sister. The woman who first reported being shot survived and was treated for injuries described as non-life-threatening.
Source: Associated Press, reporting the Spokane County Medical Examiner via the Spokesman-Review
Deputy Mason Acheson: trooper, guardsman and SWAT sniper
Deputy Mason Acheson, 35, was commissioned with the Spokane County Sheriff's Office on July 17, 2022, after serving with the Washington State Patrol from 2014 to 2022 as a trooper and firearms instructor in the Spokane area, the sheriff's office said in its November 6 update. He had served in the Washington Army National Guard since 2011, rising to sergeant, deployed to Poland in 2021-22, completed the Army sniper course in 2017 and competed in Army sniper competitions; he was assigned to the 1-161st Infantry Battalion of the 81st Brigade and earned three Army Commendation Medals, among other awards. In the sheriff's office he worked the Downtown Dayshift platoon and served on the SWAT team as a sniper providing overwatch for his teammates. 'In the face of danger, he stepped forward to preserve life, and in this selfless act of bravery, he lost his life while trying to protect others,' the sheriff's office said. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Source: Spokane County Sheriff's Office update, November 6, 2026
Deputy Parker Perry: K-9 deputy who answered the call unprompted
Deputy Parker Perry was commissioned in May 2020 and held a bachelor's degree in business administration from Carroll College in Montana, the sheriff's office said. He served in the Washington Army National Guard from 2017, reaching the rank of captain as a military intelligence officer in the same 1-161st Infantry Battalion, and served on the sheriff's SWAT team from 2022 until he was selected as a K-9 deputy in 2025. On November 3 he responded to the Smythe Road call with his K-9 partner, Brego — on his own, without prompting, the sheriff's office said — and, knowing another victim's life was in jeopardy, joined his teammates and forced entry toward the danger. Gravely wounded, he was kept on life support at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center while arrangements were made for the organ donation he and his family chose, so that, in the sheriff's office's words, others in need across the region and country will live. He is survived by his wife, two children and a third child soon to join their family.
Source: Spokane County Sheriff's Office update, November 6, 2026
Tributes from Washington, D.C. to Olympia
FBI Director Kash Patel honoured each deputy in a separate post on X, listing November 4 as Acheson's end of watch and November 7 as Perry's, the Associated Press reported. Governor Bob Ferguson ordered United States and Washington flags at all state agency facilities lowered to half-staff on Monday, November 9, until the close of business that day, in memory of both deputies. Spokane police officers and sheriff's deputies had already taken to wearing black mourning bands over their badges on Thursday, the Spokesman-Review reported. The sheriff's office said its Sheriff Community Oriented Policing Effort (SCOPE) is collecting donations to help cover the deputies' funeral costs, with any remaining funds going to their families.
Source: Associated Press
A county that rarely loses an officer this way
Line-of-duty shooting deaths are rare in Spokane County: according to the Spokesman-Review, the county had not seen a law-enforcement officer shot and killed since July 20, 1983, when a Spokane police detective was killed on a stakeout — a 43-year span that ended on Smythe Road. That both fallen deputies also served together in the same Washington Army National Guard infantry battalion has deepened the sense of loss across the region's law-enforcement and military communities.
The Spokane Independent Investigative Response Team is investigating the deputy-involved shooting, as Washington law requires for an incident of this kind, while the deaths inside the home remain under investigation. Flags fly at half-staff across Washington state facilities on Monday, November 9. Funeral and memorial arrangements for Deputies Acheson and Perry will be carried by the sheriff's office and their families, with the SCOPE fund helping to cover funeral costs.
Awaaz Punjab will update this story as the independent investigation reports its findings and funeral arrangements are announced.