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| Man fatally shot by deputy had outstanding warrant |
| By nwsource.com - Christine Clarridge Seattle Times staff reporter |
| Published: 07/19/2011 |
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A 32-year-old man who was shot and killed by a Snohomish County sheriff's deputy near Lynnwood early Saturday had a history of criminal convictions and was wanted on a state Department of Corrections warrant, according to court documents. Although the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office did not release the man's name Monday, relatives of Justin Uriah Gaswint's held a vigil for him Sunday on the Interstate 5 overpass where he was killed in a confrontation with the deputy. His mother, reached by phone, said she has not had any information on her son's death from either law-enforcement officials or the Medical Examiner's Office. "It doesn't make sense to talk about my son's life when we, ourselves, don't know what's going on," said Kathryn Conley. She said, however, that what she had heard about the man's behavior just before the shooting was completely "inconsistent and out of character for Justin." Gaswint died after he was shot in the torso by a deputy who stopped to talk to him around 5:30 a.m. while he was walking on the 164th Street Southwest overpass, according to Everett police Sgt. Bob Goetz, a spokesman for the Snohomish County Multiple Agency Response Team, which investigates police shootings. As the deputy left his patrol car, the man charged at him and threatened to kill him, Goetz said. The two fought, and at some point the deputy shot the man once, police said. Gaswint was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he died. The shooting is the third officer-involved shooting in Snohomish County this year, Goetz said. On July 10, a mentally ill Bothell man, Brandon Ray Brown, 27, was killed in his mother's home by a sheriff's deputy during an altercation. Read More. |
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