EVERETT — Three of five suspects have pleaded guilty to plotting an armed robbery that left a man with 24 gunshot wounds at the Farwest Motel.
Prosecutors plan to recommend just under 3½ years in prison for Devon Evans, 23. He admitted to first-degree robbery Wednesday in Snohomish County Superior Court.
Evans was part of the trio that intercepted a motel guest in May in a parking lot off Evergreen Way, and forced him back into his room at gunpoint.
According to court papers, Evans and Misty Krum, 29, rounded up things to steal, and Harry Lee Jones Jr. beat the man with the butt of his pistol. The gunman ordered the motel guest to get into the bathtub. The man feared he’d be shot and killed there, so he lunged at the gunman.
Jones, 24, opened fire — and kept shooting while the man was down on the floor, according to the charges. The man suffered 24 entry and exit wounds from bullets. He’d been shot once in the head, twice in the chest, in both arms and at least once in the back. His femur was shattered.
“Miraculously” he survived, prosecutors wrote. The trio escaped. Security cameras showed Evans and Krum carrying bags.
For a cut of the loot, another man, 24, had agreed to be the getaway driver, and the driver’s girlfriend, 21, agreed to knock on the door just before the robbery, to make sure they had the right room, according to the charges.
Once the fleeing robbers told the driver they’d “killed the guy,” the driver ordered them to get out, court papers say.
Jones was arrested within hours in the same neighborhood, when police caught him trying to run across a school playfield with a cast on his leg. He’s awaiting a trial date set for May for first-degree assault and first-degree robbery.
The driver was sentenced months ago to five years in prison for second-degree robbery. His girlfriend is set to be sentenced for the same crime Jan. 14. Evans’ sentencing is scheduled for the same day.
Police were told Krum, aka Misty Eggen, came up with the idea of a robbery. She reportedly told people the man had her car, lots of money and “kilos” of drugs. Her first-degree robbery trial is tentatively set for next week.
Caleb Hutton: 425-339-3454; chutton @heraldnet.com. Twitter: @snocaleb.
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