One of the officers who shot and killed a man last week had previously been involved in a deadly shooting, firing his weapon in 2014 at a man who ultimately died after the confrontation with police. Both deadly shootings took place in Lower Queen Anne.

SPD officers Ryan Beecroft and Chris Myers shot and killed Ryan Matthew Smith last Wednesday, according to SPD detective Patrick Michaud. Myers has been with SPD for 28 years and Beecroft has been with the department for four years.

Smith, 31, died last Wednesday after receiving multiple gunshot wounds while standing in the doorway of a Lower Queen Anne Apartment. Smith’s girlfriend had called the cops after he had allegedly threatened her with a knife. When officers arrived Smith appeared to still be armed with a knife, according to body camera footage released by the department last week. The two cops, Myers and Beecroft, opened fire after breaking down the apartment door. Smith died at the scene.

This wasn’t the first time someone ended up dead after Myers fired his SPD firearm. In 2014 Myers fired a rifle at a man in Queen Anne during a confrontation at the man’s house. The man had reportedly been firing weapons at his house and then allegedly fired at the cops when officers arrived on the scene, according to a 2014 Seattle Times story. Myers and another cop, Officer James Moran, opened fire and the man, Stephen P. Johnston, died from a gunshot to the face.

Myers was also one of about 125 officers who sued the city in 2014 over SPD’s new use-of-force policies, arguing in court that the city’s new policies were violating the officers right to protect themselves. The city developed the new policies after the federal government sued Seattle. The updated code required cops to use de-escalation procedures and somewhat limited when officers can use force. A federal court ruled in 2017 that the new policies did not violate the officers’ rights.