“Yancey was advancing on Adams, and Adams had his hands on Yancey’s shoulders, attempting to keep him away,” wrote Vancouver police Detective Darren McShea in a court affidavit.
Yancey swung his hand at Adam’s stomach area, and Adams fell back, grasping his stomach and said, “‘You stabbed me,'” McShea wrote.
“‘That’s what you get,'” Yancey allegedly replied.
In an interview with detectives, Yancey claimed that Adams threw a knife at him and missed, then approached him and punched him in the head, according to McShea. Yancey said he then pulled out a standard kitchen knife, which was about 8 inches long, and stabbed Adams once, according to court documents.
Following the stabbing, witnesses called 911 at about 10 p.m., but when police arrived Yancey had already fled in a white Dodge Omni.
Police didn’t locate Yancey, whom they identified early on as a suspect, Wednesday night. They started searching again at about 11 a.m. Thursday morning when officers recovered the Omni parked in the lot at The Tire Place, a business on the southwest corner of Fourth Plain Boulevard and Kauffman Avenue.
That, along with reports of people spotting Yancey on foot, prompted a daylong manhunt where all available officers scoured a 10-block area of West Vancouver between Mill Plain and Fourth Plain boulevards, including the BNSF rail yard.
He was finally captured at 5:36 p.m. in East Vancouver at Acres Mobile Estates, 13401 N.E. 28th St., where an officer had spotted Yancey going up the steps to multiple mobile homes.
It’s unclear how Yancey traveled from the tire shop to East Vancouver – a distance of more than eight miles.
Judge Gregory Gonzales appointed Vancouver attorney Michael Foister to defend Yancey. The defendant is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 8.
