ENUMCLAW, Wash. — A man was shot by a King County deputy in the Enumclaw area during a domestic violence call.
A woman called 911 at about 4 a.m. Tuesday about a dispute with her boyfriend in which she had been injured and there were children in the house.
When deputies arrived at the home in an unincorporated part of King County on Southeast 472nd Street at 294th Southeast, dispatchers told the woman on the phone to come out of the house. She emerged with the children and has a back and leg injury. The children were not hurt.
A short time later, deputies on the street heard a noise. One looked through his night vision glasses and saw a man in the driveway approaching them with a rifle.
Deputies ordered the man to drop the rifle, but instead, he pointed it toward officers. One deputy fired multiple times, hitting the suspect at least once.
The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center with serious injuries but is expected to survive.
No officers were hurt.
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