An 18-year-old man is facing a murder charge after a stolen-car chase through Kent in August led detectives to the weapon used to kill a U.S. Coast Guard pilot in Skyway, according to court records and police accounts of the investigation. Isaiah Bolar is accused of fatally shooting 29-year-old Lt. Connor Scott Overstreet, a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant, during an unprovoked street confrontation that unraveled only after an unrelated police pursuit two days later.
A Deadly Encounter In the Early Morning Hours
Overstreet, who was assigned to Air Station Ventura in California and visiting the Seattle area, was riding Lime e-scooters with two friends around 1 a.m. on August 23 when occupants of a Toyota Prius exchanged words with the group, according to Law & Crime. Overstreet approached the stopped vehicle in Bryn Mawr-Skyway, an unincorporated King County community south of Seattle, and was shot once in the chest. He was newly married and originally from Reno, according to the Placerville NewsWire.
The case remained unsolved before an unrelated police pursuit two days later in a different city led detectives to a break.
A Stolen Car and a 100 MPH Chase
On August 25, Kent police located and pursued the same Toyota Prius after an automated license plate reader alert from a Flock Safety camera system flagged the vehicle, per FOX 13 Seattle, whose video segment The Spotlight first detailed the pursuit footage. Investigators determined the Prius had been reported stolen in May 2026 in connection with an armed robbery investigated by Seattle police, and it had gone unrecovered for roughly three months before the chase began.
During the pursuit, which reached speeds up to 100 mph, Bolar allegedly shoved a backpack into his passenger’s chest and told him to take it, according to MyNorthwest. The passenger exited the moving situation and discarded the bag into a trash can. Inside was a Ruger .357 revolver loaded with five live rounds. The passenger later cooperated with detectives and described Bolar’s instructions, the outlet reported.
Ballistics and Cell Records Tie the Gun to the Scene
The discarded revolver sat as evidence in an unrelated eluding case until the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory completed ballistics testing on September 28. That analysis matched a bullet and a jacket fragment recovered from Overstreet’s body during the autopsy to the Ruger found in the backpack, according to the station’s report. Investigators also obtained mobile phone location records through search warrants that placed Bolar’s phone traveling from his Covington residence toward Skyway shortly after midnight on August 23, putting it in the immediate area of the homicide at 12:42 a.m. — a route that mirrored the suspect Prius’s path, per the same account…