Eyewitness contradicts police account of shooting (cops shot homeowner in his house, Everett, WA)

[Barrett808]

Source: KOMO News

Eyewitness contradicts police account of shooting
By Matt Markovich

EVERETT - More questions than answers are emerging about the fatal shooting by police of an Everett man in his own home, as people come forward to tell what they know about the Saturday incident.

And now an eyewitness to the shooting says he saw no police lights or sirens before three officers opened fire on the man, identified by friends and family as Dustin Willard, 31.

The eyewitness, Ryan Wilson, also says there was a first shot that preceded all the others, which contradicts the "official" version of what happened in the darkness after midnight Saturday in the 2400 block of 23rd Street in North Everett.

Wilson also says he heard only one warning from police - not repeated warnings, as they claim - for Willard to drop his gun before they fired multiple shots at him.

Read more: http://www.komonews.com/news/34181294.html

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. Holy Crap!

I live about4 blocks from there, I never heard or saw a thing!

[Barrett808]

2. So you didn't see or hear police lights or sirens, either, eh?

That could be useful evidence.

[pattmarty]

3. Did he happen to be of the "darker persuasion"???? One thing.....

.......I would hope that would "trickle down" (so to speak) from the new administration is we start prosecuting "law enforcement" officials who are involved in ANY kind of questionable shooting or injury to ANY citizen. What has been "trickling" down since AH Bush has been president, it that anyone who is seen as "different" or "lower class", has been "git-mode" with almost no one defending their constitutional rights. Hopefully that will change under Obama.

[WriteDown]

4. That is my theory as well....

This would fit into the pattern of gentrification that has been going on in Seattle(25 miles out) for about a decade.

[High Plains]

6. He was a white guy. Now he's a "justifiable homicide."

[customerserviceguy]

7. There was a picture of him at the KOMO news website

and he is Caucasian. However, the three cops who fired have about six years of experience between them, so this could just be a case of trigger-happy. I'm pretty familiar with that area of Everett, I have friends that live there, and I used to work there about thirty years ago.

The Navy base has certainly changed the sleepy little town into something that is far more, well, "active".

[NoodleyAppendage]

5. Sounds like a "hit" to me. Wouldn't be the first time... n/t

J