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Detective investigating homicide in Bothell, suspect in custody

BOTHELL, Wash. — Snohomish County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 36-year-old man, who appears to have died of a single gunshot at around 3 p.m. Friday.

The suspect, a 22-year-old man from Seattle, was taken into custody just before midnight.

“I was working on my car earlier when I hear a noise,” said neighbor Aaron McConnehey, who described it as a loud firework sound.

The sound came from the other side of his back fence in front of a house on 198th Place SE, just off Filbert Road.

“I came inside, and then 5 to 10 minutes later heard all the sirens and everybody coming up and showing up on the street,” McConnehey said.

Snohomish County Spokeswoman Shari Ireton says deputies were already on their way to the area when they got called about the homicide.

“We were called about a suspicious vehicle in the neighborhood, and then we believe the shooting took not long after that,” Ireton said.

Detectives are still trying to determine a motive but now believe that the interaction between the suspect and victim may have been drug related.

Ireton also said the shooting happened outside a home where the family of the 36-year-old victim lived.

“We don’t have witnesses who saw the exact crime, but we do have a lot to what happened prior to that incident and just following,” She said.  “That is the type of info we are gathering, and there are several people, so we are trying to piece those witness statements together.”

People being comforted by a Chaplin on the scene did not want to comment.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911.