LAKE STEVENS – A man who ran up away from police shouting “shoot me” climbed a tree to escape and didn’t give himself until he started to become hypothermic early this morning.
Police spotted the man, a wanted felon considered armed and dangerous, around 6:30 p.m. Sunday in a rented car at a McDonald’s in Marysville, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Lt. Rodney Rochon said.
As police converged, the man sped away. The police pursuit stretched through Marysville, onto I-5, east across the U.S. 2 trestle, through the Frontier Village area and north on Highway 9, Rochon said.
The man’s car was stopped in the 9100 block of Highway 9 when police used a spike strip to flatten the tires and another police car bumped the suspect’s car causing it to spin out and stall.
That’s when the man ran into the woods yelling to police to shoot him, Rochon said. Officers found the man hiding 60 feet up a tree in a heavily wooded area.
Crisis negotiators and a SWAT team were called.
The man, well-known to police, gave himself up at 2:15 a.m. today.
He was treated for hypothermia and then booked into the Snohomish County Jail.
Police from Marysville, Lynnwood, Lake Stevens, Monroe, Granite Falls and Snohomish joined Washington State Patrol trooper and sheriff’s deputies in responding to the incident. Paramedics from Getchell Fire District 21 also responded.
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