EVERETT — A 76-year-old man found shot to death in a downtown parking garage Sunday was Korean War veteran and peace activist, acquaintances and authorities said.
The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office identified him as Forrest Frownfelter of Tulalip. He died of a gunshot wound to his torso.
Frownfelter was found in a parking garage underneath the Everett Senior Center on the 3000 block of Broadway shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday.
Police investigators today weren’t ready to confirm how he might have died.
“It’s still being investigated as a homicide,” Everett police Sgt. Robert Goetz said. “We don’t think that this is a random incident and the public should not be concerned about somebody running around there with a gun.”
As a precaution, police often treat deaths as homicides until they rule out the possibility.
Frownfelter was a member of Veterans for Peace, a national anti-war nonprofit group with several chapters in Western Washington. He joined in 2003 and became a lifetime member, greater Seattle chapter Vice President Candice Davis said.
Frownfelter was a Korean War veteran, fellow group member Cliff Wells of Lynnwood said. The men met about five years ago. Wells described Frownfelter as friendly and positive.
The two lost touch for a while. When Wells saw his friend again in 2006, Frownfelter told him he had just returned from Costa Rica where he had bypass surgeries. Wells said Frownfelter looked 20 years younger.
Frownfelter was passionate about political issues, especially the war in Iraq, Wells said. He wanted wars to end. He got himself arrested at rallies along with fellow protestors, Wells said.
He’d previously worked as an educator in Minnesota.
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