3 Seattle police officers fire at, wound man in West Seattle

[Tripper11]

Source: Seattle Times

In the fourth officer-involved shooting in the region this week, three Seattle police officers shot at and wounded a 59-year-old man in West Seattle Friday night.

Acting Deputy Police Chief Nick Metz said a man who had been described as suicidal pointed an AK-47 at police officers, three officers fired and the man was hit.

The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center, and though he was still alive at about 11 p.m. Friday, Metz said, police did not know his condition. His name was not released.

According to Metz, who said his information was preliminary and subject to change, a 911 call came in to police at about 8:45 p.m. from a woman who reported that she had been talking with a female relative on the telephone when she heard a shot fired, after which the line went dead.


Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012806120_shooting04m.html

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It's been a busy week for the cops in the Pacific Northwest.

Another from even earlier yesterday :

Man with knife fatally shot by Tacoma police
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012804980_tacoma04m.html

And then this one is not going to go away easily for SPD

Native-American leaders call for probe into shooting death
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012804180_williams04m.html

[cleanhippie]

1. This kind of thing happens when you point guns at cops.

Or threaten them with other weapons.



I am no pro-police brutality person, so don't think that, but a little common sense here would have.....oh, never mind.

[savalez]

2. an ak-47 no less.