EVERETT, Wash. — A Snohomish County jury is to decide if Simeon Berkley acted out of road rage or self-defense in a 2019 shooting that left an Everett man dead.
Berkley was driving a Honda Accord around 7 p.m. that night when a Lincoln Navigator rear-ended him.
Berkley got out of his car and walked over to the Navigator while the other driver, Steven Whitemarsh remained in the front seat.
Berkley’s attorney argued last week that the case is about self-defense.
Witnesses say the men had a conversation and then Berkley shot Whitemarsh in the face.