A gunshot victim stumbled out of the woods at milepost 37 on Interstate 90 shortly after 2 a.m. on Tuesday, April 28, and flagged down a passing driver, who called 911.

A second victim walked into the administration office at the North Bend Fire Training Academy around 9:15 a.m.

Circumstances around the shooting are murky, in part due to language difficulties, according to the King County Sheriff’s office.

The two men had been apparently driven to Homestead Valley Road off Exit 38 on I-90 around 2 a.m. in a Chevrolet Suburban and dropped off, said King County Sheriff’s spokesman John Urquhart.

Both men were shot at, but only one was wounded – shot twice in the legs. Despite the gunshot wounds, the man – who appeared to be in his 40s, according to Urquhart – managed to reach the highway.

The other man emerged soaking wet and shoeless from brush around the Washington State Patrol’s Fire Training Academy near North Bend later that morning.

“He had a broken nose and was shaking,” said Bob Jones, the academy’s spokesman. “He had some other bruises on his face, which was bloodied.”

The man appeared to be Hispanic and spoke very limited English.

“He said ‘uno dead’ – which means ‘one dead’ – and ‘shoot’ or ‘shot’, but it was hard to understand him. We couldn’t get anything more out of him,” Jones said.

The man would only talk to males and not to the academy’s two female employees.

Jones contacted Eastside Fire and Rescue and the King County Sheriff’s office. The man was taken to Bellevue’s Overlake Hospital Medical Center, where the other victim had been taken.

The car – a 1997 Suburban – that the men had been in was found around 3:40 a.m. in the 30100 block of the Kent-Kangley Road fully engulfed in flames. The vehicle is registered in Kennewick, Urquhart said

No arrests have been made.