Herald staff
A Lake Stevens commercial fisherman was charged Monday in Everett District Court with second-degree murder in last week’s death of a Bothell firefighter after a fight in a Snohomish bar.
Tony Adam Cullum, 28, was being held on $100,000 bail. He was scheduled to appear in court today for another bail hearing, said Mark Roe, deputy prosecutor.
Cullum was being held on suspicion of murder following his arrest after the fight with Gary D. McAdam, 40, an off-duty firefighter who had been drinking in the same bar.
Authorities will be able to hold Cullum for around two weeks on the district court charge. If prosecutors pursue the case, it eventually will have to be filed in Snohomish County Superior Court where felonies are tried.
Roe released no additional details of the case Monday.
McAdam left a wife and three children. He got into three altercations last Tuesday night in the bar, two with Cullum and one with Cullum’s 23-year-old girlfriend. The woman was charged with fourth-degree assault, a misdemeanor, after allegedly slapping McAdam.
Snohomish police said three other people have been arrested for investigation of rendering criminal assistance to Cullum and his girlfriend.
The fight happened in the U &I Bar and Grill where Cullum confronted McAdam after the slapping incident, police said. Other patrons broke up the fight and pushed McAdam out the door of the tavern.
Patrons also held on to Cullum, prosecutors said, but he broke free and pursued McAdam outside. The stricken firefighter was found unconscious in the street.
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