Kevin West, pictured here in a 2019 promotion ceremony to battalion chief for the Camas-Washougal Fire Department, murdered his wife, Marcelle “Marcy” West” at this home, say deputies in Clark County, Washington. (Screenshot of home: KPTV; image of defendant West: City of Camas)

A firefighter called in his wife’s fatal medical emergency as a “seizure,” but people who knew them had concerns that the victim’s death was anything but natural, according to deputies in Clark County, Washington.

Kevin West, 49, is charged with first-degree murder.

Deputies say that he contacted 911 the early morning of Jan. 8 to say that his wife, Marcelle “Marcy” West, 48, was having a seizure.

“Within minutes, he advised the dispatcher that she had stopped breathing and that he was initiating CPR,” authorities wrote.

The Washougal Police Department and Kevin West’s own colleagues at the Camas-Washougal Fire Department responded at 4:27 a.m.

“Medics arrived and attempted life-saving measures, but resuscitation efforts were not successful,” the sheriff’s office wrote. “Marcy West’s time of death was pronounced at 5:11 am.”