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Name Not Disclosed

Age : 25

Gender : Male

Race : Unknown

Date : 01/16/2021

Location : 132nd Avenue SE

City : Kent

County : King

State : Washington

Agency : Kent Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Driver killed in police chase crash

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

REASON FOR CHASE: Kent police attempted to stop the driver after an officer saw his vehicle rapidly leaving the area of a reported armed robbery at East Hill Market. Police said the description from that robbery was similar to the description from another reported armed convenience-store robbery approximately one hour earlier.
NARRATIVE:
On 01/16/2021, shortly after midnight, Kent Police Department officers responded to East Hill Market in the 23800 block of 108th Avenue SE after a store employee reported a robbery involving a handgun.

According to police, the man had been inside the market before approaching the counter, displaying a handgun and demanding money. Police said he left the store when customers entered. Responding officers believed his description was similar to that provided following another reported convenience-store robbery approximately one hour earlier, during which a store employee reported being threatened with a handgun.

A Kent police officer saw a vehicle rapidly leaving a nearby parking lot and attempted to stop it. The driver continued away from the officer and a police pursuit followed.

At approximately 12:37 a.m., the fleeing vehicle left 132nd Avenue SE and struck a tree at high speed. The driver was ejected from the vehicle. Officers and fire personnel attempted emergency medical treatment, but the 25-year-old Des Moines resident died at the scene.

The January 16 crash is documented in federal fatal-crash data as a single-vehicle fatal collision on 132nd Avenue SE in Kent at 12:37 a.m., involving one vehicle, one person and one fatality. The date, time, city, roadway, single-vehicle configuration and fatality correspond to the fatal pursuit crash reported by Kent police and contemporaneous news accounts.

Police reported that a handgun was found near the driver after the crash. Kent Police also stated that its preliminary review of surveillance video from the earlier reported robbery indicated that the person depicted was the same person who fled from officers before the fatal crash.

Kent Police reported that its preliminary investigation did not indicate that a police vehicle struck the fleeing vehicle before it left the roadway. Because the death occurred during a Kent Police pursuit, the department requested that the King County Sheriff's Office conduct an independent investigation of the collision.

The fatal collision is documented by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the federal census of fatal motor-vehicle crashes occurring on public roadways in the United States.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/suspected-armed-robber-dies-crash-after-fleeing-police/UAJ7U64HGRD2XODOMQZ43IFFDQ/
https://www.kentreporter.com/news/man-dies-in-single-vehicle-crash-fleeing-from-kent-police-after-robbery/
https://ilovekent.net/armed-robbery-suspect-killed-in-fatal-one-car-crash-after-fleeing-from-kent-police/
https://www.city-data.com/accidents/acc-Kent-Washington.html