Shots were fired and three men were injured on the main drag of Fremont early on Sunday morning, according to a Seattle police report. When officers arrived at the bloody scene, one of the suspects reportedly “yelled for officers to shoot him.”

The incident began at about 1:00 a.m. when police officers, who had been responding to a garden-variety noise complaint, heard gunfire within earshot. At the intersection of Dayton Avenue North and North 36th Avenue Street, they found a man in the street “bleeding profusely from the back of his head,” the report says. Witnesses—including a victim’s fiance who told officers that her partner “had been pistol-whipped, kicked, and punched”—then pointed to a nearby white Chevy Malibu while yelling, “He has a gun!” The police officers held the car at gunpoint while waiting for backup.

While two of the men in the car were peacefully cuffed, the front-seat passenger was not. According to the police report, he “yelled for officers to shoot him and he required several commands before he complied.”

According to SPD spokesman Mark Jamieson, the three victims’ injuries were non life-threatening. The SPD Blotter write-up of the incident did not mention the suspect requesting that officers shoot him.

6 replies on “Man Asks Police to Shoot Him”

  3. @1: Oh come on, you can’t have a real city if everyone is a skinny, unemployed hipster who sucked at sports and didn’t fit in at high school.

    Fremont is cool in part because it is NOT Capitol Hill.

    @2: “scuppers, bilges, and sumps of ‘journalism'”

    Nicely done. Please forgive me if you see me repeating this phrase, a lot, here on SLOG.

  5. @4: It officially ended when the last baby boomer’s scraggly pony tail turned gray.

    Now it’s party central for 30-something urbanites with decent jobs, and those who love them.

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