BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A Bellingham elementary school principal is dead and her husband is under guard at the hospital following a shooting at a Bellingham residence Thursday.
Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a condo complex in the 900 block of Marine Drive at about 10:30 AM in response to a reported murder and suicide.
A 58-year-old woman, a dog, and a cat were found shot and killed in the apartment.
Deputies also found the victim’s husband alive inside with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital.
Bellingham School District Superintendent Greg Baker says the woman who was killed is Sunnyland Elementary School Principal Lynn Heimsoth.
In a message posted on the district website, Baker says “Her death is a profound loss to our Sunnyland community, our school district and to our extended community.”
Heimsoth was principal at Sunnyland since fall 2017.
Baker says the district’s counseling and support team will be available to students and staff when school resumes on January 6th.