Veteran, rookie officer involved in fatal shooting

Published 9:00 pm Tuesday, February 19, 2002

SEATTLE- A six-year police veteran and a man with just over a year on the force were identified Tuesday as the officers involved in the fatal shooting of a sword-wielding man.

Brett Rogers, 32, and Stanley Austin Streubel, 23, have been placed on administrative leave during an investigation of Monday’s shooting – standard procedure in police-involved shootings.

The victim’s name has not been released because relatives have not been notified, the King County medical examiner’s office said late Tuesday afternoon.

The officers fired after trying unsuccessfully to subdue the man with a stun gun, or Taser, police said. The man had ignored orders to put down a 2 1/2-foot-long sword he was wielding in a threatening manner, police said.

The shooting happened after a routine traffic stop in the city’s University district. The man sped off after the stop, smashed into another vehicle, then jumped out of his car and started running down a residential street, brandishing the sword, police said.

Seattle

UW, WSU will cut back on freshmen enrollment: Because of overenrollment, the University of Washington and Washington State University will reject more high school seniors next fall than they have at any other time in recent memory. The UW will admit about 500 fewer freshmen for the 2002-03 school year than were admitted last fall, while WSU will add just 40 freshman slots. “It’s going to be very competitive,” said Tim Washburn, executive director of admissions at UW. Reduced admissions could last for several years, he said. “When you’re this far overenrolled, it’s going to take a while.” Some public high schools in Seattle are warning seniors to keep their options open and be prepared to leave the state for college. Most college-bound seniors in the state apply to the UW or WSU, they say.

Wenatchee

Snowmobiler died of trauma: A Seattle snowmobiler died from a broken neck and bleeding in the brain caused by blunt trauma, the Chelan County Coroner Gina Fino said Tuesday. The body of Jack C. Hardie II, 29, was found late Saturday at the bottom of steep, rocky hillside, about one-half mile south of Ardenvoir, the Chelan County sheriff’s office said. Hardie’s snowmobile was about 150 feet away.

Toppenish

Skulls returned to Yakamas: Two human skulls found in the attic of a vacant house have been returned to the Yakama Nation. The skulls were found by two boys exploring a house in Yakima last month. The mother of one of the boys called police when her son brought the remains home, said Yakima police Sgt. Mike Costello. Detectives verified the skulls were human, and cultural resources staff for the Yakama Nation identified them as being American Indian. The elderly homeowner now lives in a rest home, but relatives told detectives that he had mentioned obtaining the skulls from the Yakama reservation during World War II, Costello said. The skulls had been placed in bags and stored in a fruit basket at the house.

Vashon Island

Seattle Weekly founder dies: Darrell R. Oldham, co-founder of an association of alternative urban weekly newspapers and of the Seattle Weekly, is dead at 64. Oldham, who later worked for The Seattle Times and established a free-lance marketing and publishing company, died of lung cancer Saturday at his home on this island in Puget Sound. “He really helped make the alternative press prevail and endure,” said Bruce Brugmann, founder and publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 1976 Oldham co-founded the Seattle Weekly, now owned by the parent company of The Village Voice in New York, and in 1978 he helped create the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, of which he later became president.

Oregon

Washington state woman dies in accident: A 72-year-old Washington woman died when she was thrown from the van she was riding in after it hit ice, crashed into a snow bank and overturned near Medford. Lila Lore of La Center was pinned under the van, according to the Oregon State Police. Lore’s son, Dennis Gettman, 52, of Medford, was driving when the van hit an icy stretch on Oregon 140 near the Dead Indian Memorial Road intersection. Gettman’s wife, Gail, and their 16-year-old daughter, Hannah, were taken to Merle West Medical Center in Klamath Falls, where they were treated for minor injuries and released.

From Herald news services