EDMONDS — A convicted felon who police believe robbed a man at gunpoint in Edmonds early this morning was shot later by police after a chase that ended in Seattle.
The suspect, 36, was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with injuries that were not believed to be life threatening, King County sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said.
“It was a very good ending from the standpoint that we took a convicted felon off the streets and no one got hurt other than him, and just a little bit at that,” he said.
The suspect has a lengthy criminal history and was convicted of killing a man in King County in 1993, court records show.
Police believe a string of incidents led to the shooting in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven store near the intersection of N. 134th Street and Roosevelt Way N., Urquhart said.
It all started about 5 a.m. at Andy’s Motel in the 22200 block of Highway 99 in Edmonds, he said. Police said the suspect robbed a man, an acquaintance, in a hotel room, before fleeing in the man’s car with a woman. The man then called police.
Edmonds police arrested the woman about an hour later when she drove back to the hotel in the man’s car, Urquhart said.
Around 9:30 a.m., detectives returned to the motel to interview the robbery victim and recognized the suspect leaving the motel, he said. They followed in an unmarked car.
When the man started toward Shoreline, the detectives called for backup.
Several Shoreline and Edmonds patrol cars tried to pull the man over when he took off, he said.
The man pulled into the 7-Eleven parking lot and police tried to box him in. The man slammed his car into reverse and backed into the hood of a detective’s car, then slammed into the front of the store, toppling an overhang, he said.
“He was driving a car in a deadly manner not only to officers but the people inside the 7-Eleven store,” Urquhart said.
That’s when the officers opened fire, hitting the man in the arm, he said.
The Shoreline officer, 41, who has worked for the department for six years, and the Edmonds sergeant, 38, a 17-year-veteran, were both placed on paid administrative leave, standard police after an officer-involved shooting.
Seattle police are investigating.
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