Authorities offer cash reward for information leading to arrest of suspect in fatal fire

Law enforcement officials are offering a cash reward for information that leads to the arrest of Jason Birman, a suspect in a Aug. 9 homicide east of Concrete.

The reward is set at $15,000, with the U.S. Marshals-led Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force offering $5,000 and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms offering $10,000. Anyone with information regarding Birman’s location is asked to call the U.S. Marshals Office at 1-877-926-8332; submit a tip online at www.usmarshals.gov/tips/index.html ; or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

Anyone who encounters Birman in person is asked to call 911 immediately and to not approach him.

Birman is a 50-year-old man with blonde hair and blue eyes. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 210 pounds. He is wanted for questioning in the death of three people in Concrete.

The Skagit County Coroner’s Office determined all three were killed by gunshots, according to police. A fire then destroyed the two-story residence along State Route 530 south of Rockport. The victims were his wife, Erin Birman, 52; her 19-year-old son, Taylor Dawson; and Taylor’s girlfriend, Jillian Whitney Van Boven, 18.

All three were all Skagit County residents.

Birman is known to frequent Whatcom County, and has been missing along with his blue 1994 Chevrolet pickup truck with license plate C67636L.