BELLEVUE, Wash. — A man who police say fired at Bellevue police during a car prowl last month died during a standoff with Seattle police Friday morning.
On Aug. 29 officers responded to a car prowl near the 1600 block of 184th Avenue NE.
"As the officer approached the suspect, he ran away and fired a shot back at the officer," a spokesperson for the police department wrote in a news release.
Police said no one was injured and investigators found a spent bullet casing, but no gun.
The Bellevue Police Department identified the suspect as 28-year-old Adam Anthony Gua.
Early Friday morning, Seattle police received a 911 call from a man in the Capitol Hill neighborhood who reported that there was a man sleeping on his couch, and wanted officers to check if it was the car prowl suspect.
When officers arrived, police said the caller confirmed the person inside the apartment was Gua.
Officers and a SWAT team tried to speak with Gua over several hours, but they said he refused to talk to police.
Before 7:30 a.m., officers heard a gunshot from inside and went into the apartment. Police said the Gua died of a self-inflected gunshot wound.
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