Domestic violence suspect shot and killed by Lynnwood police officer

EVERETT, Wash. — Michael Gilroy says he got a rude awakening last night as police officers from Lynnwood and Everett converged on his quiet neighborhood.

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"Hearing 'bang, bang, bang' about 11:00 at night," Gilroy said.  "I jumped up, looked out my window and I see my friend laying in my driveway dead. Basically dead, yeah. The cops shot him."

"You know this person?” he was asked.

“Yes, I know him very well," he replied. "I have known him four or five years."

According to investigators, the fatal confrontation actually began 13 miles away on this Lynnwood street where the 44-year-old man's girlfriend lives. She told police he was there, threatening to kill her. So she called 911.

He allegedly fled to his home in Everett.  On the street behind his house he was met by a Lynnwood police officer.

"From what I understand he tried to taking the gun from the policeman," he said. "That's what they're saying. But I don't believe that. He's not the kind of guy that would take a gun from a policeman. So there was basically no shouting, no saying get down, on your knees. Nothing.  Not one word.  All's I hear is a 'pop, pop, pop.' "

It has left the entire neighborhood rattled.

"It's just, it's unsettling," said Douglas, who asked that we not use his last name. "It's just a part of what's going on in the world."

Gilroy has put up a memorial to his friend near where he died.

KIRO 7 tried to talk to the man's girlfriend, but were told she did not want to talk.

Neighbors tell us this is not the first time she had called police because of him.

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