EVERETT, Wash. — A Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office deputy fired a shot at a suspect in a stolen car in the parking lot of Silver Firs Shopping Center in Everett Tuesday evening.
According to the Snohomish County Multiple Agency Response Team (SMART), deputies responded to the shopping center, located on the 5800 block of 134th Pl SE, around 5:20 p.m. for a welfare check.
When deputies arrived, they found a man sitting in a parked car. Responding deputies ran the license plate of the vehicle and discovered it was stolen.
When the deputies attempted to make contact with the man in the vehicle, he drove the vehicle into other cars in the lot, including “multiple police vehicles and a bystander vehicle,” according to SMART spokesperson Julie Moore.
A deputy then fired a single shot into the vehicle, which did not hit the man inside. Moore said the man complied with deputies after the shot was fired. He was taken into custody and brought to the Snohomish County Jail.
Moore said a total of four deputies were involved in the incident. No injuries have been reported.
The identity of the suspect is unknown at this time.
The SMART has taken over the investigation into the incident.