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Officials identify man fatally shot by Edmonds police officer

Published 5:10 pm Wednesday, April 27, 2022

By Herald Staff

A police officer shot someone at a motel during a domestic violence call in the 22100 block of Highway 99 in Edmonds, Washington on April 22, 2022. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)
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A police officer shot someone at a motel during a domestic violence call in the 22100 block of Highway 99 in Edmonds, Washington on April 22, 2022. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)
Police at the scene of an officer-involved shooting in Edmonds on April 22. (Kevin Clark / Herald file)

EDMONDS — A man fatally shot by Edmonds police has been identified.

Police were called around noon on April 22 to a motel in the 22100 block of Highway 99, for a report of a domestic violence incident between a man and a woman.

There, Edmonds officers confronted William Houseworth II, 42.

“The suspect advanced at officers while armed with a knife,” according to the Snohomish County Multiple Agency Response Team, a cadre of detectives who investigate police use of force.

One officer shocked him with a stun gun, and when the man kept moving, another officer fired a gun, investigators reported.

Houseworth later died at a hospital, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Wednesday. An autopsy showed he died of the gunshot wounds.

None of the officers were injured.

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