Bellevue police kill man in Seattle warrant search

BY KIRO Radio Staff  on March 22, 2013 @ 7:35 am (Updated: 4:34 pm - 3/22/13 )

Bellevue police shot and killed a man Friday morning in South Seattle.

The Seattle Police Department says the man was a robbery suspect trying to run down Bellevue SWAT officers.

The officers were serving a search warrant, looking for two robbery suspects in a string of crimes around the region.

Carla Iafrate with Bellevue Police said the officers were approaching the house around 5 a.m. when a man in a tan Mercedes noticed the officers, tried to reverse, ran into a truck, and then stepped on the gas.

Officers feared he would run them over, rather than surrender. Three officers opened fire.

The man died a few hours later at Harborview Medical Center.

The Seattle SWAT team replaced the Bellevue team after dawn to search the home near 42nd Avenue South and South Hudson Street, in the Columbia City neighborhood.

Police say the man was suspected in a series of robberies in both Bellevue and Seattle.

No officers were injured in the incident.

The shooting will be investigated by Seattle police, Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • slaggg wrote...
    "I'm not sure what happened"
    March 22, 2013 8:46 am
    Yeah, no need to be sure, just start shooting citizens. Fact: Police shoot 10 times more citizens than citizens shoot police. Fact: Police shoot 250,000 dogs a year. Fact: DHS has issued purchase orders for 1.6 billion bullets this year, enough to shoot each citizen 4 times. Fact: Local police departments are taking delivery of surplus MRAP mine resistant assault vehicles from the army. I ask - what is the correct focus of gun control?
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  • Tyrone DeVille wrote...
    Thank You Bellevue PD for Taking Out The Trash!
    March 22, 2013 9:05 am
    Keep them coming, and we'll supply the body bags!
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  • Mako wrote...
    AJ
    March 22, 2013 9:06 am
    So pack up and leave. Well thought out response except it was not the Seattle police involved. But I say leave anyway.
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  • dexterjibs wrote...
    you gotta love
    March 22, 2013 9:38 am
    all these experts in police tactics and procedures and experts in the Use of Force that always come out and criticize the police whenever they shoot someone. If these critics were real men, they would be police officers themselves but obviously they would rather sit their arses in the easy chair and criticize like bunch of Nancy boys.
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  • Yadda1 wrote...
    So aj,
    March 22, 2013 4:53 pm
    As an infant, you must have been dropped on your head--repeatedly.
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  • CH wrote...
    Three officers opened fire? The man was a robbery suspect. Would be real funny if it was the wrong guy!!
    March 22, 2013 6:38 pm
    bet they got off 100 rounds. Three of our finest will bee off the streets now. We will be safer for it. What shell we do on our vacation[paid leave]? Get drunk and go to a Sounder game? You can't make this crap up.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    100 rounds?
    March 23, 2013 5:23 am
    You have absolutley no idea what occurred. But like the moronic, imbecilic a55wipe you are, you simply make something up. Kinda like the "D" politicians in D.C.
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