Louis Haynes of Kitsap County lost his friend in a hit-and-run accident, and he's also friends with the sheriff’s deputy who encountered the suspect.
Patrick Van Knotts, 35, is accused of being on opiates and slamming into the back of a vehicle on Highway 305, sending it into traffic where it was struck head-on.
A driver charged with striking and killing a cyclist riding on the shoulder of Central Valley Road was smoking heroin in the vehicle when a deputy arrested him shortly after the wreck, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office said.