Bomb Maker Dies In House Explosion - Puyallup Washington

April 15, 2008

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The Pierce County sheriff’s office says a 26-year-old man who was making a bomb died in an explosion and fire that destroyed a home in Puyallup.

A body was found in the rubble.

“We’re finding pieces 75-100 feet away,” said spokesman Ed Troyer.

Troyer said the man - a registered sex offender - had rented a room in the home from a couple.

When the couple came home at around midnight, they saw their roomate, who they say had been acting paranoid lately, with a cache of bombs and explosive materials.

The couple called 911.

“He grabbed the duffel bags and went upstairs. We got the people outside of the house,” said Ed Troyer of the Pierce County Sheriff’s Dept. “Shortly after there was a large explosion, which engulfed the whole entire house and took off the top floor.”

“He either accidentally or intentionally set the explosion off, which took the whole top floor off of the residence and engulfed the house in flames,” Troyer said. “Our deputies were standing 75 to 100 yards away. It drenched our deputies in beauty bark and dirt.”