A 30-year-old Lacey man at the center of an incident involving Thurston County SWAT died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds, county Coroner Gary Warnock said Sunday.
The manner of death was ruled a homicide, but Warnock made clear that is a term of classification in this instance and does not mean a crime has been committed. Whether a crime has been committed would still have to be determined by the Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, he said.
About 5 p.m. Jan. 21, a Lacey officer who serves as a member on Thurston County SWAT shot Kaleb Lewis multiple times in the 4600 block of 45th Avenue Southeast in Lacey, according to the state Office of Independent Investigations (OII), The Olympian reported…