The Cowlitz County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who shot two people Tuesday afternoon in a rural area southwest of Battle Ground as a 33-year-old Vancouver man.

Brendan Bo Bowers died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head, according to the coroner’s office.

The shooting was reported shortly after 4 p.m. in the 7400 block of Northeast 159th Street, which is in a rural area between Mount Vista and Brush Prairie.

The incident reportedly started when Bowers drove a different vehicle into a ditch in front of a residence and shot two people who went to see if he was OK. He was unknown to the shooting victims.

Both of the victims were shot in the legs with an AR-15 or similar weapon and were taken to an area hospital, according to emergency radio traffic monitored at The Columbian and information released by the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.