Man dies by suicide in Columbia neighborhood

A 25-year-old man shot and killed himself in a parking lot in Bellingham’s Columbia neighborhood Thursday, May 18, according to police. Bellingham Police responded to multiple 911 calls of a single gunshot around 5:30 p.m. May 18. Officers arrived at the 3100 block of Northwest Avenue and found a person lying in a parking lot with an obvious gunshot wound. After processing the scene and interviewing witnesses, Bellingham Police detectives and crime scene investigators determined a 25-yea