KENT, Wash. (AP) — Kent police say an armed man fatally shot near the Kent Transit Center was a 58-year-old resident of the south Seattle suburb.
The man was not immediately identified.
Kent police Lt. Tracey Gurr says two officers responded to the transit center about 9 a.m. Wednesday to a report of an armed man.
Federal Way police spokeswoman Cathy Schrock told KOMO News the man raised his gun and one officer fired. Officers recovered a gun near the man’s body.
Medics pronounced him dead at the scene. No one else was injured.
One witness told KING-TV the man had ignored orders to “drop it.”
Another witness told KOMO the man refused orders to “freeze” and said he wanted to die.
