Crime & Safety

Overnight Shoreline Death Ruled a Suicide

The King County Medical Examiner's Office said that Douglas R. Ramm, found by police in a car in Shoreline, died from self-inflicted wounds.

The King County Medical Examiner's Office this afternoon released the name of a man found dead in a car near the Shoreline library early Wednesday morning, May 22, and ruled his death a suicide.

Douglas R. Ramm, 45, died on the night of May 21st from "multiple incised wounds" on his neck, according to the Medical Examiner's report.

A Shoreline Police Officer found Ramm when he approached a car that was stopped on NE 174th Street with it's hazard lights flashing.


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