Lake Stevens police shoot, kill man suspected in car theft
Jan 18, 2023, 6:10 AM
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Police on Friday shot and killed a man suspected of stealing a car north of Snohomish in Lake Stevens, law enforcement officials said.
Officers were called to the Frontier Village shopping center around 11:30 a.m. on a report that a man stole a car from a woman there and fled south on Highway 9, The Daily Herald聽.
Officers pursued the vehicle, which the man at some point exited and he started running, according to Nathan Fabia, a Mukilteo police officer who serves as spokesperson for the Snohomish County Multiple Agency Response Team, a law enforcement group that leads investigations into police use of force.
Officers got into a confrontation with the man and then an officer or officers fatally shot him, Fabia said. It鈥檚 unclear if the man had a weapon, he said. No officers were hurt. No further details about the confrontation were released.
That portion of Highway 9 was closed Friday afternoon and an investigation was ongoing.
