Police identify Seattle homicide suspect

Police are looking for Troy D. Sanders, or John Taylor,
who
they say is wanted in connection with a homicide in
Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood last week.

Police say Sanders, 26, shot and killed a man in the
parking
lot of a Jack in the Box restaurant in the
9100 Block of
Rainier Avenue South
on May 16 during a video shoot.

Sanders is described as being, 5’11 tall, 175 pounds with
a
light skinned complexion. He has tattoos that read “Troy”
on his lower right arm, and “Boy” on his lower left arm.

Sanders may be driving a black 2001 Mercedes 500 four-
door,
license plate 359UKT.

As police and medics arrived to the parking lot, many
people fled the scene, but police say a large crowd, about
25 to 30 people, stuck
around and began challenging officers. It actually slowed
aid crews from getting to the victim, a man in his 20s.

Eventually they were able to get to the man, who was lying
in the back of the parking lot. They transported him to
Harborview Medical Center where he died.

Mayor Mike McGinn said this is not the first shooting at
that Jack in the Box location.

“I’ve been down to that Jack in the Box,” said McGinn. “I
asked Assistant Chief Pugel, who is the head of our
Criminal Investigations Division, to take me to every
murder site in the city.”

McGinn said he wanted to see the murder sites to determine
whether there were patterns or trends that could be
observed in the crimes.

He said in the Wednesday shooting case, it wasn’t an issue
of police not being in the area.

“A police officer heard the shots and was on the scene
immediately,” said McGinn. “We do have emphasis patrols
there, and in this case there was a police officer very
close by when it happened.”