By CHRIS SULLIVAN
KIRO Radio

Major crimes teams around Puget Sound are going to be busy for the next few weeks. Police officers in Seattle and Federal Way shot and killed two suspects this week, and a Pierce County man died after being tasered by a deputy in Spanaway.

The most recent incident occurred Tuesday night near Wild Waves in Federal Way where an officer trailing a suspected car thief opened fire when the man tried to run the officer over with a pickup. "There was no talk of a weapon," Kathy Schrock of Federwal Way Police told KIRO Radio. "The truck was the weapon."

There are still plenty of unanswered questions in Monday afternoon's shooting in downtown Seattle. Authorities report 27-year-old officer Ian Birk shot and killed homeless artist John Williams.

50-year-old Williams was a well known and quite accomplished Native American carver. "When he was on, he carved some pretty incredible things for us," Andy James of Ye Olde Curiosity shop told the Ron and Don Show. "He did have a drinking problem," James said. "That was so sad because he had so much talent."

Seattle Police are still looking for people who witnessed the shooting at Boren and Howell about 4:15pm Monday. Some witnesses told police that Williams didn't even turn to face Officer Birk before he fired.

The Medical Examiner in Pierce County still hasn't released what killed the 27-year-old man that was tasered by a deputy after break-in Tuesday morning. He stopped breathing after being restrained by four deputies.

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