SEATAC, Wash. — Eddie Sulcer, accused of killing a man in SeaTac in 2020, was found not guilty this week after two trials and nearly four years in jail.
He was 17 when he shot and killed a man outside a 7-Eleven near South 200th Street and International Boulevard South following an argument inside the store.
He was charged with second-degree murder.
Sulcer’s first trial ended in a hung jury last year.
In the second trial, a jury ruled the shooting of 21-year-old Fernando Arias was self-defense.
Sulcer’s attorneys say video evidence showed the man confronting Sulcer and his teenage friend. When the man pulled out a gun, he was fatally shot by the two teens.
Sulcer was immediately released from the King County Jail after the verdict was read.
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