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investigate outside a mobile home where a man shot himself
during the search for a state trooper's killer. PORT ORCHARD,
Wash. - The man considered a suspect in the deadly shooting of a
state trooper has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  The
man, identified as Joshua J. Blake, 28, shot himself Thursday
morning as police closed in one him. He was rushed to Tacoma
General Hospital, where he later died.  Officers had closed in
on a mobile home, located near Mullenix Ridge Elementary School,
where Blake was reported to be holed up. As police surrounded
the home, at about 9:10 a.m., they heard a single gunshot from
inside the home or just behind it. Officers rushed in and found
Blake with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Records show Blake
was an ex-con with a history of drugs, assaulting the mother of
one of his children, and kicking out the window of a police car.
He had previously threa