A 15-year-old boy seemingly had no idea a SWAT team was waiting in a stairwell of a Skyway apartment building to arrest him last week when he walked out of a third-floor unit and was taken into custody with a loaded .45-caliber handgun in his waistband, according to King County prosecutors.
The Valley SWAT team was at the Taylor Creek apartments on June 18 to arrest the boy on a warrant for a juvenile absconding while on parole based on a second-degree assault conviction — but he’s since been charged with far more serious crimes, including premeditated first-degree murder.
He is accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old girl in Kent on June 3 while apparently targeting a gang rival, according to charges filed Wednesday. He is also charged with four counts of first-degree assault for allegedly shooting at four other teens, two counts of unlawful firearm possession and one count of unlawful possession of a machine gun part…