The Seattle PI is reporting that one of the suspects in the homicide that took place Saturday morning at an Interbay business, was shot by police this afternoon near the Space Needle. The PI has reported this morning that the suspect has died.
Yesterday afternoon, the suspect resisted arrest and then the confrontation broke loose which resulted in shots fired. The suspect was hit by fire and later rushed to Harborview Medical Center.
The homicide took place Saturday morning at A-1 Self Storage at 2648 15th Ave. W. According to one man who spoke to police Saturday, two men entered the business, robbed then stabbed the manager, a man in his 80s by the name of Ernie. The suspects fled and another employee at the storage facility called police. Medics rushed Ernie to Harborview Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead. Sunday afternoon, one of the suspects was spotted by police near the Space Needle, according to the PI. An altercation ensued then shots fired. The suspect was struck and immobilized. Medics then took him to Harborview.
Police have not yet confirmed if there is a second suspect in the shooting, but have said that video surveillance from the storage facility shows the one man who police later killed. The man, Eric Blaine Evans, 46, according to reports in the PI and Seattle Times, was using the elderly man’s credit cards, which contributed to how the police were able to close the net on him. The Times is reporting that the suspect had spent time in prison for fatally “beating a teenage girl with a baseball bat in April 1988.”
He’s a sick man. Ernie was the sweetest guy in the world.