PORT ORCHARD — Kitsap County prosecutors have charged a 72-year-old man who was shot and injured by police after he allegedly pulled a gun on them in May.
Fred Sowell is charged with first-degree assault for pointing a pistol at two officers. He’s also accused of assaulting his wife.
The Kitsap Sun reports Sowell was booked into jail Tuesday after he was released from a Tacoma hospital where he had been since he was shot.
Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies responded after a family member called May 15 to report an armed man in mental distress. Deputies tried to pull him over but he drove away.
