Chase suspect dies in Everett crash after striking innocent teen driver with T-Boy – KIRO 7 News Seattle

EVERETT, Wash. – New details have emerged in a Washington State Patrol chase that ended in a fatal crash.

An innocent teenager was injured after being T-boned by the suspect. This all happened on Sunday around 8 p.m.

According to the Washington State Patrol, a trooper attempted to stop a driver for a traffic violation, but the driver refused to stop and drove off.

The chase turned deadly about six minutes away in Everett's Riverside neighborhood.

“The car was right here,” William Olsen said. “The man was lying right there.”

This is the grisly scene that neighbor William Olsen witnessed Sunday night when a police chase turned deadly practically on his doorstep.

“Right outside my door,” Olsen said. “Yes.”

According to Everett police, a Washington state trooper spotted a man doing something illegal and attempted to stop him on the Highway 2 trestle. The suspect, who a family friend said was about 50 years old, took off and the officer gave chase.

As the man reached the Riverside neighborhood, he T-boned a teenage driver, lost control and crashed through a small bush.

“We can confirm that the driver of the suspect vehicle was the person pronounced dead at the scene,” said Everett Police Officer CJ Hawley.

Officer Hawley says the driver was known to law enforcement.

“Based on the background information I have, he did in fact have a criminal record and was actively on the run to avoid ongoing criminal investigations,” Hawley said. “I don’t know anything about an arrest warrant. But he was doing things that would have resulted in an arrest at the time of the traffic stop.”

This is the second fatal crash and third crash overall following a police chase in Western Washington in the last three weeks.

Just last week, four people were injured when they were struck by a 24-year-old woman driving a stolen pickup truck in West Olympia, and on Sept. 7, a 70-year-old woman visiting family from Georgia was killed in Lacey Another fleeing driver collided head-on with the vehicle in which she was sitting.

As for the teenager who was hit, neighbors say she was just 17 years old and her mother was called to the scene to desperately comfort her. Luckily she only suffered minor injuries.

Everett police are leading this investigation as the State Patrol is involved. KIRO 7 will continue to update this story with new developments.

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