Ex-fire battalion chief sues over videos

Former Camas-Washougal Fire Battalion Chief Kevin West, who is on trial for murder in his wife’s death, has filed a defamation lawsuit against a neighbor he alleges harassed him with a series of true crime videos posted on the social media platform TikTok.

West filed the civil complaint Jan. 5 in Clark County Superior Court. Joining him in the suit are a woman with whom he had an affair and his son.