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Home invader shot dead by citizen had long record
Josey1
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Man killed in West Seattle had long record
By Ian Ith
Seattle Times staff reporter
The 22-year-old man who was shot dead Thursday in an apparent home-invasion robbery in West Seattle had a criminal record and had been a passenger in a car whose driver was shot and killed by a King County sheriff's deputy following a New Year's Eve chase.
The King County Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday that Scott W. Brewer died of a single gunshot wound to his body.
Now Seattle police homicide detectives are left to figure out why Brewer forced his way into the home in the 5200 block of 35th Avenue Southwest. None of the residents had ever seen him before, police said.
"We're still looking into the motive," police spokesman Duane Fish said. "It's probably robbery, but we don't know why that house was targeted."
With Brewer dead, they may never know.
Police say they believe a woman who lives upstairs at the house acted in self-defense when she shot Brewer about 6 a.m. He was armed, had broken into the house and was fighting with a man who lives on the first floor.
Brewer was out on bail while awaiting trial on charges of car theft and eluding police stemming from the fatal New Year's Eve chase near Auburn.
In that incident, Brewer was sitting next to Robert G. Harrison, 17, of South Prairie, Pierce County, in a stolen car as Harrison tried to outrun King County deputies from Federal Way to Auburn.
Deputies cornered the car, but Harrison gunned the engine while headed toward them, and Deputy Curtis Timby shot Harrison dead. Brewer took the steering wheel and drove two miles with his dead friend before deputies forced the car to stop.
It was only the latest in a long string of felony charges against Brewer. He had served jail terms for stolen-property possession, theft, firearms possession, attempting to elude police and repeated car-theft convictions, according to court records.
Ian Ith can be reached at 206-464-2109 or iith@seattletimes.com.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/134444050_homeinvasion27m.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Ian Ith
Seattle Times staff reporter
The 22-year-old man who was shot dead Thursday in an apparent home-invasion robbery in West Seattle had a criminal record and had been a passenger in a car whose driver was shot and killed by a King County sheriff's deputy following a New Year's Eve chase.
The King County Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday that Scott W. Brewer died of a single gunshot wound to his body.
Now Seattle police homicide detectives are left to figure out why Brewer forced his way into the home in the 5200 block of 35th Avenue Southwest. None of the residents had ever seen him before, police said.
"We're still looking into the motive," police spokesman Duane Fish said. "It's probably robbery, but we don't know why that house was targeted."
With Brewer dead, they may never know.
Police say they believe a woman who lives upstairs at the house acted in self-defense when she shot Brewer about 6 a.m. He was armed, had broken into the house and was fighting with a man who lives on the first floor.
Brewer was out on bail while awaiting trial on charges of car theft and eluding police stemming from the fatal New Year's Eve chase near Auburn.
In that incident, Brewer was sitting next to Robert G. Harrison, 17, of South Prairie, Pierce County, in a stolen car as Harrison tried to outrun King County deputies from Federal Way to Auburn.
Deputies cornered the car, but Harrison gunned the engine while headed toward them, and Deputy Curtis Timby shot Harrison dead. Brewer took the steering wheel and drove two miles with his dead friend before deputies forced the car to stop.
It was only the latest in a long string of felony charges against Brewer. He had served jail terms for stolen-property possession, theft, firearms possession, attempting to elude police and repeated car-theft convictions, according to court records.
Ian Ith can be reached at 206-464-2109 or iith@seattletimes.com.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/134444050_homeinvasion27m.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
poss. of stolen property,theft,firearms possession,eluding
& many theft convictions @ 22 yrs old.
looks like the ol' revolving door FINALLY slammed shut.
now aint that just to damned bad.
barto
the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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