WASHINGTON, Sept 3: A terrifying shooting spree that stretched from a small northwest Washington town onto the state’s busiest highway left six people dead and at least two more wounded on Tuesday.

The dead included a Skagit County sheriff’s deputy and the wounded included a Washington State Patrol trooper who was shot while trying to catch the shooter on Interstate 5, the State Patrol said. A suspect in the shootings, a recently released convict with a history of mental illness, has surrendered.

State Department of Corrections officials identified the man as Isaac Zamora, 28, who had served a six-month Skagit County jail sentence for drug possession. Zamora was released on August 6 and was under community supervision by Corrections officers, spokesman Chad Lewis said.—AP