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Man Killed After Stepping Onto I-5

February 1, 2006

A man was killed early Friday when he got out of a moving vehicle on Interstate 5 near Seattle.

Gregory Spencer, 39, stepped out of the Dodge Durango his wife was driving after the couple had been having a fight. The incident occurred about 1 a.m.

Spencer was found dead in the left lane of northbound I-5 with injuries. The State Patrol is investigating whether Spencer was hit by another car after he jumped out.

Spencer's wife, Katie Pemberton, said her husband was a schizophrenic Gulf War veteran who was having a mental-health episode at the time.

Spencer's death marks the second tragedy in the past four years for the family. Pemberton's 16-year-old daughter, Georgia Pemberton, died on her prom night in 2002 in Edmonds after a driver crashed head-on into the vehicle carrying Georgia and her prom date.

Pemberton said her husband wasn't trying to kill himself when he jumped out of the vehicle that she said was going about 20 mph at the time.

So Pemberton turned around and decided to call 911 to get an ambulance. She said she was slowing to a stop on the side of I-5 near Marysville to wait for an aid car for her husband when he jumped.