EVERETT — A man trying to buy $500 worth of fentanyl pills at a Grease Monkey last week instead was shot in the hand.
A police report filed in Everett District Court gives new details on the shooting that took place around 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the 13000 block of 39th Avenue Southeast, near Silver Lake.
The person who was shot said he intended to buy 30 Fentanyl-Percocet pills from the suspect, whom he met when they attended Bothell High School together.
The suspect, a 19-year-old Tacoma man, showed up in a Toyota Matrix, along with two others. The alleged victim said he got in the backseat of the car, where a man he didn’t know sat. The stranger, armed with a handgun, asked where the money was. The buyer asked where the pills were.
After a prolonged “verbal standoff,” the buyer felt something was wrong, according to his account that was part of a Snohomish County sheriff deputy’s report. As he moved to open the door, the stranger reportedly struck him in the head with an object, possibly the handgun.
The would-be buyer got out of the car, only to be confronted by the man he knew from high school, who attempted to grab the cash from his hand, according to court papers.
There was a brief scuffle. Then a gunshot.
With the $500 still in his possession, the buyer ran away.
He was transported to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett with a gunshot wound to his right hand.
According to court papers, the injury required surgery. Several bones in his hand were fractured or broken, and he lost feeling in at least three of his fingers.
Deputies later found the suspect at a residence in Lynnwood. He fled, allegedly dropping his jacket as he ran, along with a gun.
The suspect was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Zachariah Bryan: 425-339-3431; zbryan@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @zachariahtb.
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