BOTHELL, Wash. — Charging documents filed in the fatal shooting of a Bothell police officer say it was the officer’s partner, not the suspect, who fired the deadly shot.
That information came out as prosecutors charged the suspect, Henry Eugene Washington, with aggravated first-degree murder and other crimes in the death of officer Jonathan Shoop.
They say Washington began firing into the patrol car after he was pulled over Monday night.
Shoop and his partner returned fire, and one of the bullets the partner fired from the passenger seat struck Shoop in the head as he was driving.