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Anthony Allen Martinez, 30, fatally shot a 13-year-old girl and himself after wounding two Kitsap County sheriff's deputies outside a Walmart in Port Orchard, Washington, on Jan. 23, 2011, the State Patrol concluded.

The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office said deputies were sent to the store on information about a man believed to be armed who was with an underage girl reported as a runaway from Utah. Washington State Patrol spokesman Bob Calkins said the tip came from an acquaintance of the man who reported what appeared to be inappropriate behavior between the two and said they were heading to the Walmart. The girl had walked away from a foster care facility in South Salt Lake five days earlier after disabling and removing an ankle monitor, Utah authorities said. Clearfield police, in the Utah city where the girl's family lived, said they found no evidence of a sexual relationship between the two while they were in that state.

Deputies John Roy Stacy, 50, and Andrew Ejde, 48, found Martinez outside the store and began questioning him. Calkins said Martinez gave a false name, and the deputies were walking him toward their patrol car when he pulled away and ran. The sheriff's office said Martinez drew a .40-caliber handgun and fired over his shoulder, wounding both deputies.

A third deputy, Krista McDonald, 38, fired at Martinez and struck him in the leg, knocking him to the ground. A U.S. Justice Department award citation for McDonald says she opened fire from roughly 90 to 100 feet away and moved closer, without cover, to draw Martinez's fire away from the two wounded deputies.

As Martinez lay on the pavement, the girl ran toward him and he shot her twice in the chest, then shot himself, the State Patrol said. She was taken to Tacoma General Hospital, where she died. Martinez also died.

The State Patrol released its findings on March 18, 2011, and concluded that Martinez fired the shots that killed the girl and himself. Investigators had at first believed McDonald fired the rounds that killed him. Calkins said every weapon involved was a .40-caliber Glock loaded with hollow-point ammunition, so the residue evidence settled the question. The girl had gunpowder on her clothing while the closest deputy was 60 feet away, and the upward angle of her wounds could only have come from someone lying nearby. Martinez's own wound was a contact wound. "This was a murder-suicide," Calkins said.

Ejde, who was shot in the arm and shoulder, remained on medical leave as of March 2011, sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson said. Stacy recovered from a shoulder wound and returned to work. Kitsap County Prosecutor Russell D. Hauge said his office was examining whether there was any liability on the part of the deputies. McDonald was among the recipients of the Washington Law Enforcement Medal of Honor in 2012.

The recording is police radio traffic from the response, running about three and a half minutes. It is a logging tape, the continuous recording made of a dispatch channel rather than a call taken on a 911 line, and it captures the radio side of the encounter as units were sent to the store and as the shooting was reported. It is short and covers only a narrow slice of the incident.