Autopsy shows multiple gunshot wounds

MOSES LAKE — Information broadcast by Spokane-based TV news channel KREM 2 Wednesday, relating to the double-shooting in Cascade Valley is invalid, authorities said today.

The shooting took place Tuesday morning at a duplex at 8060 Road 4.2 Northeast, just outside Moses Lake.

One man was found outside the duplex, shot to death, face down on a dirt driveway. Grant County Coroner Jerry Jasman identified the man as Frankie Corral Jr. III, 25, of Othello. Corral died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, Jasman said today.

A 20-year-old man was also found outside the duplex, a bullet still lodged in his brain, the Grant County Sheriff's Office reported. He was transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, the sheriff's office said. His condition remains tentative and his name is not being released, pending further investigation.

KREM 2 allegedly reported the shooting as a murder-suicide as the TV news channel claimed the man at Sacred Heart shot Corral before turning the gun on himself.

The TV news channel used information not provided by investigators and is invalid, according to a sheriff spokesperson.

"KREM 2 news broadcast information that was not released by the (sheriff's office)," said Chief Criminal Deputy John Turley. "The information released to the public by KREM 2 news was invalid and had nothing to do with the homicide in Moses Lake."

Detectives investigating the shooting are still trying to piece together what led to the altercation and shooting. A Moses Lake man, a resident of the duplex, was placed in protective custody as a material witness to the shooting. 23-year-old Maxwell Duane Paterson, is being questioned by detectives while being in Grant Count Jail, he said.

Turley said the investigation is dynamic in nature and no further information is available at this time.