Charges Filed in Downtown Seattle Shooting
Tuesday afternoon the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed a second-degree murder charge against a man for the Oct. 3 fatal shooting near 3rd and Pike in downtown Seattle. In addition to the murder charge with a firearm enhancement, he also was charged with first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, a felony.
We asked a judge to set bail at $2 million in that case.
The defendant was not located immediately after the Oct. 3 fatal shooting — he was arrested Oct. 16 following a second shooting in Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborhood. In that case, two people were shot including a woman who was visiting from Oregon.
Following the man’s arrest in the Little Saigon shooting, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office asked a judge to hold him on $750,000 bail arguing that he was a danger to the community. The judge set bail at $500,000, and found probable cause for first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office rush filed charges against the suspect in this case and his co-defendant on Oct. 20. (Rush filing a case means to file it within 72 hours so an individual can remain in custody with a judge’s order.)
On those two cases, the defendant is in jail on the $2.5 million total bail amount requested by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. He has remained in jail since our initial bail request at his Oct. 17 first appearance.
This blog post is not expected to be updated moving forward.
