SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. (AP) — A police spokesperson says a Sedro-Woolley police officer has fatally shot a man in his 50s after an armed confrontation on State Highway 20 in northwest Washington. No one else was injured.
Sedro-Woolley police say a driver who was stopped Tuesday afternoon by the Sedro-Woolley officer for erratic driving pulled a gun, then drove off. When that vehicle was stopped again a short time later, Lt. Lyn Tucker tells the Skagit Valley Herald that the officer fired at least two rounds.
KING-TV reports that the driver had gotten out of his vehicle, started walking toward the officer and pulled a weapon before the officer fired.
Police say the man who died was in possession of a .45 mm handgun and had a second gun in a holster on his body.
