DSHS officials say a third patient at Western State Hospital has been missing since Wednesday. Officials say the incident is separate from the two "dangerous" patients who escaped that same day, which prompted a statewide manhunt.
According to DSHS, the third patient left the ward in the morning on an escorted group visit to a fashion center outside the premises. They were due to return to the ward 35 minutes later. Officials say the patient left the center unnoticed through an exit door; the patient's whereabouts are unknown.
WSH staff notified hospital security, who searched the grounds, with no success. Lakewood Police Department was notified, along with other law enforcement agencies.
Officials say the patient had grounds privileges and was civilly committed to the hospital after criminal charges of burglary and violation of a no-contact order were dismissed due to incompetency to stand trial.
A search for two suspects who also escaped from Western State Hospital ended Friday after authorities took Anthony Garver into custody without incident in Spokane.
Lakewood police said 28-year-old Anthony Garver and 58-year-old Mark Alexander Adams escaped from Western State Hospital sometime Wednesday evening.
Adams was captured without incident in Des Moines Thursday morning.
Officials say Garver fled to Spokane after buying a bus ticket in Seattle Wednesday night. Sheriff's deputies say he showed up at his parents' house in Spokane Valley in the afternoon, then ran off.
The Spokane County sheriff says K9 teams tracked Garver's trail to a wooded area near the house. Officers found Garver hiding underneath a pile of debris.
