BELLEVUE — A man shot to death in a confrontation with Bellevue police was violent and would have eventually killed his wife, the woman said today.
Police said John Pebles, 62, was shot and killed Tuesday night after he attacked an officer with a knife. The officer, a six-year veteran, was not injured.
His wife, Mary Kay Pebles, told KIRO-TV and KOMO-TV that she had locked Pebles out of their apartment Tuesday and that he tried to break a window with a planter.
Mary Kay Pebles said she and her husband were separating after eight years of marriage because of his temper. She said he had retired after 44 years with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and that they had moved eight years ago from Spokane.
The Tuesday incident was the latest of at least five officer-involved shootings in King and Snohomish counties in the past week. On Monday, a Seattle police said an officer wounded a man in a car that tried to run him down, and a King County sheriff’s deputy killed a Woodinville man Saturday during a domestic violence call.
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