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Officer shoots, kills carjacking suspect Only the second officer-involved shooting for police department since the 1970s BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
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n armed man was shot and killed by Kirkland police officers on the morning of Oct. 15 after the suspect allegedly tried to steal three different cars near the Kirkland Justice Center in the Totem Lake
neighborhood. According to a Kirkland Police Department (KPD) spokesperson, the police received reports of suspicious activity at around 9:15 a.m. The callers stated that a white male in his twenties or thirties was possibly stealing mail at an undisclosed whereabouts.
When initially contacted, the man fled on foot. Shortly afterwards, the KPD received another report of a man armed with a handgun attempting to steal a vehicle. For unknown reasons, he was unable to do so and fled the scene. Another person then reported seeing him trying to steal a second
vehicle. He then attempted to carjack an occupied vehicle but again failed. Police officials said the vehicle’s occupant was unharmed. Officers again contacted the suspect on Northwest 118th Street near a business park, where an [ more SHOOTING page 10 ]
Kirkland Police Department detectives investigate the shooting death of an attempted carjacker in the Totem Lake neighborhood of Kirkland by a KPD officer on Friday. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter
Bear captured in Totem Lake neighborhood Fish and Wildlife had been tracking animal for weeks through public reports BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
A bear previously reported in Kirkland was captured by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife after it was found in a tree in the Totem Lake neighborhood on Oct. 15. The male black bear is now being held by Fish and Wildlife in Fall City, according to Fish and Wildlife Sgt. Kim Chandler, who had been tracking the bear on a map ever since it was first reported near the Microsoft Campus in Redmond a month ago. “Everybody was calling it in,” he said. Days later, it was reported near the Lake
Washington Institute of Technology. The next day, it was reported at Juanita Beach Park before being spotted days later at the Arrowhead Elementary School and then at the Inglewood Golf Club. For the next 3-4 days, Chandler said, the bear was reported near Cedar Park Christian in Bothell before moving back down into Kirkland, where it was reported near the gas pump at the Fred Meyer along 120th Avenue Northeast, then by the apartments behind the QFC off of Northeast 124th Street. Despite the dozen reports made by residents, [ more BEAR page 9 ]
An officer with Department of Fish and Wildlife puts eye drops into the bear captured outside of the Fred Meyer along 120th Avenue Northeast late Thursday night. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Police documents shed new light on assault at Juanita High School BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
Newly released documents from the Kirkland Police Department from its investigation into an October 2014 assault in the Juanita High School boys locker room by several
football players sheds new light on the incident. Among the documents are revelations are that several Juanita High School officials didn’t consider the incident worth reporting to the police and that similar assaults had occurred
before within the football team. Additionally, the officers’ reports describe the victim’s legal guardian and family relative as uncooperative, whom police recounted mocked the victim, a special needs student, for being assaulted
and repeatedly obstructed attempts by police to interview him throughout the investigation. The five players arrested after the incident, all freshman C-Team players at the time, were ultimately accused by the King County
Prosecutor’s Office of having planned to sodomize the student as part a of hazing ritual known as “jubie,” according to court documents. According to the newly released documents, the police were first informed
of the Oct. 22, 2014 incident at around 9 p.m. by a female family member of the victim with whom he lived. She told police she had been previously contacted by Juanita Athletic Director Steve Juzeler about [ more JHS page 13 ]