Man Pulled Over for DUII and Arrested for Murder

It was just after 7:30 Sunday night. Deputies from the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office responded to the home at 13614 Southeast River Road. Melissa Elaine Vargas, a 51-year-old from Gaston, was dead on the floor.

Vargas had been shot once in the back of the neck.

Deputies spoke to 61-year-old Debra Kusch-Siegard, who lives at the address with her husband Gregory.

Debra told deputies that Debra was a friend of theirs. She said her husband had come downstairs. He shot Vargas once . Debra ran from the house as her husband fired several times at her.

Greg fled in his 2016 Subaru.

Just more than one hour later, deputies got a call from the Washington State Patrol.

Troopers said they had responded to a car overturned on I-5 near Ridgefield. There, they found the Subaru overturned. And Siegberg. They arrested him for DUII.

While he was was being taken custody, Siegberg admitted he had a lot to drink. And "I just killed someone," he said.

That led troopers to notify the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.

Siegberg was first evaluated at a hospital and then booked into Clark County Jail. Authorities will move to have him extradited to Oregon.

Photo Washington State Patrol