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Woman killed in I-90 crash west of Ritzville

Driver facing vehicular homicide charge

RITZVILLE — One person was killed in a one-vehicle crash that blocked westbound lanes of Interstate 90 on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 15.

Stacy K. Pickering, 34, of Moses Lake, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Washington State Patrol reported. She was a passenger in a 2001 Ford Windstar driven by Donald R. Burgeis, 36, of Moses Lake.

Burgeis was transported to a local hospital; he is facing a charge of vehicular homicide, the patrol reported.

Two other passengers — a 12-year-old boy and a girl whose age isn’t known — were not injured in the crash, the patrol reported. The names of the juvenile...

 

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