‘I am no longer a person’: Video shows mass stabbing suspect’s prior run-in with...
PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Body camera video from a prior traffic stop shows a bizarre interaction between Pierce County murder suspect Aleksandr Shablykin and police in 2022. Earlier this week, a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Shablykin, 32, while responding to a disturbance at a home near the town of Purdy on the Key...
Family reportedly IDs two killed in stabbings, shooting near Gig Harbor
The 32-year-old man who witnesses said stabbed his mother and three of her neighbors to death outside her Key Peninsula home before being fatally shot by a Pierce County sheriff's deputy Tuesday morning was Aleksandr Shablykin, KING 5 reported, citing Shablykin's sister. The 52-year-old mother was identified as Zoya...
Boater found hurt near Tacoma Narrows Bridge after running aground, hitting tree
A person was found with minor injuries Friday morning on a fishing boat that Pierce County sheriff’s deputies say ran aground sometime Thursday evening south of the Narrows Bridge and struck a tree. Gig Harbor Fire & Rescue crews responded shortly before 7 a.m. near the Tacoma Narrows Park. Tom Wescott, a...
More suspects charged for money laundering scheme and theft of $26,000 from Centralia resident
Abby Craig, the woman charged in Lewis County last month for allegedly participating in a money laundering scheme that stole over $26,000 from a Centralia resident, had referred to two of her
Repeat violent felon accused of trying to kill Seattle officers in Ballard has died
SEATTLE — A man with a lengthy history of violent crimes, who was accused of attempting to kill Seattle police officers earlier this month as they tried to arrest him in the Ballard neighborhood, has died. Christopher Michael Bowman,62, passed away on Wednesday as a result of injuries sustained...
Fake mail carrier accused of violently strangling Seattle homeowner’s wife during demand for bitcoin
SEATTLE — A 31-year-old Auburn man has been charged with burglary, extortion and assault after prosecutors say he posed as a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier to get inside a Seattle home and demand cryptocurrency, according to court documents. Ian Alexander Blair was charged in King County Superior Court...
Seattle Meth Boss Gets Nearly 16 Years As Feds Crush Multistate Ring
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Cesar Delfin-Cervantes to nearly 16 years in federal prison after prosecutors and federal agents accused him of leading a multistate methamphetamine trafficking network. The conviction followed a five-month probe that authorities say turned up more than 215 pounds of meth tied to...
Family of Colorado man who died after stem cell injection in Seattle awarded $24...
A King County jury on Thursday awarded $24 million to the family of a Colorado man who died after receiving a stem cell injection at a Seattle clinic in 2019. Michael Trujillo, 62, of Westminster, Colorado, died after receiving a spinal injection at the Seattle Stem Cell Center in April 2019. Evidence presented at...
Yakima Teen Airlifted to Seattle With Critical Injury After Early Morning Shooting
The girl was suffering with a wound to her abdomen.
In Rare Tragedy, Man Dies Inside Rainier Beach Library Branch
A 41-year-old man died at the Rainier Beach library just after 3pm February 13 after library staffers tried but were unable to revive him with Narcan and CPR. The library shut down for the rest of the afternoon. According to library spokeswoman Laura Gentry, library patrons “alerted staff that there...

















