SEATTLE — On Friday night, the Seattle Police Department released surveillance and bodycam video after officers shot and killed a homicide suspect Thursday evening in White Center.
The shooting happened at around 5:45 p.m. at a home in the 10000 block of 21st Avenue Southwest, where SWAT and other officers were serving a warrant for a suspect in connection with a homicide that Assistant Chief Deanna Nollette said happened earlier in the year.
Watch police bodycam video that reveals how the officer-involved shooting unfolded. Warning: the video is graphic.
Nollette said officers used a PA system to tell the suspect to come out and surrender when a man came out of the house armed with a handgun.
The man fired at officers who returned gunfire, hitting the suspect, Nollette said.
Lifesaving measures were performed on the man, but he was pronounced dead at the scene by medics.
A gun was recovered from the man’s hand, according to police.
Nollette said the department’s Force Investigation Team would investigate the shooting, and there will be oversight by the Office of Police Accountability and the Office of the Inspector General.
The three officers who returned fire at the man were placed on paid administrative leave per the Seattle Police Department’s policy.
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Assistant Chief Nollette briefed the media at the scene. pic.twitter.com/rn6ZAh1t4f
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) August 6, 2021
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