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-- Authorities say they believe a young female who died after a shootout outside a Walmart store was connected to the shooting suspect.
The female -- thought to be a teenager --- was one of two people killed in the Sunday afternoon shooting in Port Orchard, Washington.
"We don't think she was just a store patron unrelated to the incident. We believe she was associated with the suspect, but we have not been able establish the relationship yet," said Kitsap County Sheriff's Office spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson. The female remained unidentified.
Two sheriff's deputies who were injured in the shooting were recovering from non-life-threatening injuries Sunday night.
"They both are going to live," Wilson said.
Three sheriff's deputies responded to the Walmart store around 3:45 p.m. Sunday after getting a call about a suspicious person "from a bystander who had concerns about a person inside the store," Wilson said.
The deputies approached one man outside the store's south entrance, but the man ran from the scene.
"(The deputies) called to him and said, 'Hey, we need to talk to you,'" Wilson said. "He turned around and shot at them, and they returned fire."
The man was shot and later pronounced dead in the Walmart parking lot. As of late Sunday night, authorities had not released his name, age or other details about him.
Wilson described the situation as "somewhat chaotic" but "stabilized."
"There is no danger to the community at this point," he said. "We think that all persons (who were) involved ... have been accounted for."
The Washington State Police were taking over as the lead investigative agency in the case, and the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office requested assistance from the FBI.
The incident occurred near one of the retail giant's stores in Port Orchard, a town just west of Parkwood. Located on Sinclair Inlet, Port Orchard is about 30 miles north-northwest of Tacoma and across Puget Sound from Seattle.
The store was locked down for about 20 minutes immediately after the shooting with about 100 people inside, Walmart customer Mike Lambert told CNN affiliate KIRO.