At 4:42 pm on December 29, 2024, Spokane Police Department (SPD) officers stationed themselves on a hill that gave them a clear view of Joshua Musselman through the open front door of his third-floor apartment.
They were there because a neighbor complained he had been shooting a rifle into that same hill, just north of the Northcliff Terrace apartment complex, earlier in the day.
As they watched him, Musselman, 29, walked onto the landing to “roll a joint,” according to a newly-released investigation of the killing. Minutes later, at 4:46 pm, the police opened fire from the hill, and Musselman was dying in a hallway just inside the door…