Local Briefly: Man trapped under forklift dies in Arlington
Published 10:54 pm Friday, March 14, 2008
ARLINGTON — A 34-year-old man died in an apparent industrial accident near the Arlington airport Friday afternoon, officials said.
Dispatchers got a 911 call that a man was trapped under a forklift, Arlington city spokeswoman Kristin Banfield said.
The call came in around 1:45 p.m. from the 19300 block of 59th Avenue NE, she said.
The man apparently worked in the industrial park near the airport.
Rescuers arrived quickly but were unable to resuscitate the man, Banfield said.
Police and investigators from the state Department of Labor and Industries were investigating the incident.
On Nov. 26, a 41-year-old Lake Stevens man died while he worked around heavy machinery at ACS Industries in the same area.
Robert Anthony Llewelyn of Lake Stevens died from blunt impact when he was hit in the head, according to county medical reports. That death was ruled accidental.
Monroe: Man charged in motel owner’s death
An argument over barking dogs ended with the death of a motel manager, and now a Monroe man is charged with first-degree manslaughter.
Jesse A. Bullington, 30, is accused of punching Kenneth Wolfe in the head during a shouting match on Feb. 26 outside the Brookside Motel. The blow caused Wolfe to fall backward and hit his head on the asphalt parking lot, according charging documents filed Friday in Snohomish County Superior Court.
Wolfe, 46, was taken by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he later died.
Prosecutors allege that Bullington, a tenant at the motel, was upset about another tenant’s barking dogs outside his room. He allegedly yelled at the dog owner.
Wolfe confronted Bullington and asked him to leave, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Tobin Darrow wrote. Witnesses told police Bullington was yelling at the motel manager. The two men were face to face when Wolfe pushed Bullington. The younger man allegedly punched Wolfe in the head, knocking him to the ground, Darrow wrote.
Bullington, a convicted felon, was being held on $250,000 bail.
Stanwood: Two men charged in murder
Prosecutors on Friday filed first-degree murder charges against two men who reportedly had accompanied Nicky Schoonover Jr. to a Money Tree store in Everett to cash an $800 check.
Jamall Shonree Baker, 31, of Everett and Elmer Orlee Sampson, 46, of Marysville are being held on $50,000 bail.
Schoonover’s body was found Feb. 21 in a large vacant field north of Stanwood.
Snohomish County detectives used store surveillance cameras to identify the suspects, who allegedly accompanied Schoonover to the Money Tree on Feb. 19, according to court documents. Schoonover, who grew up in Lake Stevens, had been shot several times, deputy prosecutor Tim Geraghty said.
From Herald staff reports
