Man Faces Murder Charge In Carson Death

A 45-year-old man described by the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office as a transient is now facing murder charges in the death of a Carson man in an incident originally reported as a fall from a seizure.  The Sheriff’s Office says 50-year-old Damon Vlietstra died at Peace Health Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver on Wednesday.  Skamania County EMS was called to the man’s home on February 20 on a report of an unconscious male experiencing continual seizure type symptoms, and took Vliestra by ambulance to Peace Health.  Two days later Vlietstra’s son called the Sheriff’s Office to report a man had come to his residence and said he had assaulted his father.  Last Tuesday Nathan Goncalves came to the Sheriff’s Office to give a statement, and was arrested at that time on felony assault charges.  After Vlietstra died, second degree murder and first and second degree manslaughter charges were added.

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