PULLMAN, Wash. - A recent WSU grad was found critically injured Wednesday morning, lying on a rural road outside of Pullman. Police are trying to solve the mystery of how she got there and what happened to her.
Kristen Grindley of woodinville is in a hospital bed tonight. At last report, she was unconscious and unable to answer the questions that police have for her.
Grindley was found by a passerby early at 1:40 a.m. on a rural palouse road, lying in a pool of blood. The Woodinville High and WSU graduate was airlifted to Spokane's Sacred Heart Medical Center tonight in critical condition.
"She appeared to be in a very serious condition. Either struck by a vehicle or perhaps thrown from a moving vehicle," says a Whitman County Sheriff's spokesperson.
Investigators are now trying to figure out what she was doing that far out on Pullman Albion Road. If she was thrown from a car, why wouldn't anyone stop to help her?
Grindley writes on her Facebook page that she graduated this year from WSU with an advertising degree and is now working in sales for a clothing store in Pullman. Tonight her Facebook page is covered with well wishes from her friends and family. Her sister promising justice.
"There is very few clues out there, but there are a few. And we do know that someone else knows what happened," said the sheriff's spokesperson.
Kristen still has family in the Woodinville area.
