TACOMA, Wash. — Newly released body camera footage is offering a stark, earlier portrait of Aleksandr Shablykin, the man suspected to have stabbed and killed four women on Washington’s Key Peninsula last week before being shot and killed by a deputy.
The video, recorded during a 2022 traffic stop in Gig Harbor, shows Shablykin disputing the authority of police officers in a tense roadside exchange that ended without violence—but not without incident.
“I have paperwork and documents notarized and thumb printed that I am no longer a person or a human,” Shablykin tells an officer in the video. “I am operating under land and soil jurisdiction as a living man.”…