More information on Shoreline Police shooting

From the King County Sheriff's office as of August 11, 2011 8:40 am

Two Shoreline Police officers shot a man armed with a knife and a shotgun yesterday afternoon, August 10, 2011. The man died from his wounds.

The incident began at 1:04pm when the Sheriff's Office received a 9-1-1 call from a residence in the 700 block of N 200th, Shoreline (one block west of Aurora). The male caller said to “come quick” something about “fighting.....has a knife...blood everywhere.” Then the caller hung up. Police later learned this was the suspect’s father.

Patrol officers were dispatched and a call receiver called in to the residence and spoke to a “hysterical” male who was “....just telling us to come.” The man apparently set the phone down because the call receiver could hear a woman in the background say “cover his neck, he’s bleeding”.

The first officer arrived at 1:09pm, and the second at 1:10pm. A woman walked out of the house shortly thereafter. She said she was the girl-friend of the suspect, 25 years old. She had cuts to her hands and was bleeding. She told officers that her boy-friend was suicidal, had cut his neck, and her hands were cut trying to get the knife away from him. She said the man’s father was in the house and her boy-friend still had the knife.

She also said there was a loaded “rifle” in a downstairs bedroom.

At 1:15pm the suspect walked out the front door and toward the deputies. He was holding a knife and a shotgun. He was told several times to drop the gun and when he didn’t, both deputies fired. The man was hit at least twice. Deputies tried to stem the bleeding by direct pressure but the man died at the scene.

The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of her wounds.

The suspect is 22 years old and lives at that residence with the girl-friend despite a court order prohibiting contact between the two. He is listed in the state computer system as an “officer safety risk” from a 2010 incident in Snohomish County where he assaulted officers. He was also a convicted felon for an Assault 3rd Degree conviction.

The officers involved are assigned to the Shoreline Police Department by the Sheriff's Office, as Shoreline is a contract police department.  They are 29 and 34 years old, and have been police officers for six and 11 years, respectively.

Both have been placed on paid, administrative leave, which is standard in these situations.