MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. – Authorities have released the name of a man wanted for a double homicide in Trinity County who later was killed in a Mendocino crash while fleeing law enforcement.

The suspect was identified as 32-year-old Tomas Pitagoras Gouverneur, who had addresses in San Francisco and in the state of Oregon, according to Capt. Kurt Smallcomb of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.

Gouverneur died as the result of a Monday evening crash with an oak tree while he was being pursued at high speeds on Highway 162 north of Willits by Mendocino County Sheriff's deputies, Willits Police and California Highway Patrol officers, according to Smallcomb.

He was alleged to have stabbed four people – two of them fatally – in an attack in Kettenpom, located in southern Trinity County, according to the Redding Record-Searchlight. No motive was reported.

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