Deputy Fatally Shoots Man At Bothell Apartment Complex

A Snohomish County sheriff's deputy fatally shot a man in Bothell early Thursday morning after responding to a report of an assault with a weapon involving a pregnant woman, her boyfriend and her father.

The shooting happened after the deputy responded to the call at the Archstone Northcreek Apartments along the Bothell Everett Highway at 19th Drive Southeast at about 1:15 a.m. The initial report was of a domestic disturbance, but it was soon upgraded to a report of an assault with a weapon, authorities said.

Officials said a man, his girlfriend and the woman's father shared an apartment. Those two men were involved in an altercation, police said.

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Witnesses told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Karen O'Leary they heard a woman screaming in her apartment, then heard a young man, who they said was angry, order the older man to leave the residence. The older man ran downstairs with the younger man in pursuit.

The first deputy responding to the scene saw three men in a parking lot outside the apartment building. The woman's father had a puncture wound to the face, the sheriff's office said.

There was a confrontation between the deputy and one of the men involved in the assault, officials said, and the deputy opened fire, wounding the man. The man who was shot was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said that man was the woman's boyfriend.

Witnesses said they heard the deputy order the man to stop.

Investigators said the man who was shot stabbed his girlfriend's father in the face with a screwdriver. Police said a screwdriver was found next to the dead man's body at the scene along with a second screwdriver on the man's body.

Deputies said a third man in the parking lot was a witness who told detectives he felt threatened by the man who was later killed.

The father is being treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover told KIRO 7 that the deputy who opened fire was not hurt.