Spokane Spokesman-Review
SEATTLE — Police officers on Washington’s West Side shot two men in separate incidents Sunday, one of them fatally.
Lakewood police killed a 32-year-old man during a confrontation. No officers were injured.
Lakewood police Lt. Dave Guttu said investigators were trying to determine what led up to the shooting, reported about 1 a.m. Sunday. He said the man had been attending a gathering nearby.
Four officers have been placed on administrative leave, which is routine in an officer-involved shooting.
In Seattle, homicide detectives shot a man they suspected was involved in the Saturday death of an elderly storage-facility worker.
Police spokesman Mark Jamieson said the man attacked detectives after they confronted him Sunday and police were forced to shoot him. The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. His condition was not immediately known.
Jamieson said detectives were investigating the brutal attack on the public storage facility worker when they encountered the suspect in Belltown on Sunday afternoon. Police say the suspect had been using the worker’s credit cards at stores around Seattle, and detectives had video footage and photographs of him.
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