Clark County has agreed to pay $7.5 million to the widow of Vancouver police Officer Donald Sahota, who was mistakenly shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy at his home near Battle Ground during a man ...

Donald Sahota was shot and killed in January 2022 when a Clark County Sheriff's Office deputy mistook him for a robbery suspect.

In January 2025, Dawnese Sahota sued the county and the deputy who shot her husband, Donald, on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022.

Headlines about shocking crimes can make it difficult to see the bigger picture, but data shows violent crimes are declining in the county.

A late-night shooting in Washington County left a 35-year-old man dead and a 26-year-old man jailed on murder and weapons charges, authorities said.