EVERETT – A Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy shot a man here today after the car the suspect was riding in crashed into a parking lot outside of an Everett business, witnesses said.
The shooting occurred at about 12:15 p.m. in front of at least two employees of Norpro, located in the 2200 block of of Merrill Creek Parkway.
The shooting, which occurred inside the city of Everett, involved a sheriff’s deputy, Snohomish County Sheriff Rick Bart said.
Here is what witnesses said happened:
A red car apparently being chased by a police officer shot off Merrill Creek Parkway and into the business’s parking lot, where it crashed through brush and hit a parked car.
A woman was driving the red car. A man was a passenger.
The woman shouted “Run! Run!” and the man dashed away.
A lone sheriff’s deputy chased the man to a corner of the parking lot. He ordered the man to the ground and when the suspect refused, blasted him with pepper spray.
Meanwhile, the woman reached into the car and retrieved a blue bag, which contained a shotgun, witnesses said.
The deputy was shouting at the man to get on the ground. Instead, the man ran toward the woman, who tossed him the shotgun.
Witnesses said they heard up to three gunshots, and saw the man with the shotgun fall to the ground, bleeding from the chest.
The deputy then subdued the woman with an electric shock from a stun gun.
More police and emergency crews converged on the scene in less than five minutes.
“I was kind of ducking and watching. I wanted to go inside but there were shots fired and police all around,” a man who said he watched the shooting said. The employee at Norpro said he was in the parking lot in his car when the incident unfolded.
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