The Whitman County Sheriff's Office is investigating three apparent suicides that occurred within five hours Saturday afternoon. According to a news release from Sheriff Brett Myers, the Sheriffâs Office first responded to a shooting shortly after 1 p.m. in Oakesdale. Deputies found an elderly woman laying in front of her homeâs entryway with injuries to her face consistent with a gunshot wound. The woman told deputies she had been shot by her husband. She believed he then shot and killed himself. Deputies entered the home and found the 82-year-old man dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.