UPDATE: Bellevue Police Fatally Shoot Robbery Suspect

A man died Friday morning after being shot multiple times by Bellevue Police, who were attempting to serve warrants in Seattle on two suspects in a string of robberies in Bellevue.

Update: 3:30 p.m. March 22:

The man shot by Bellevue Police was a person wanted in a string of Bellevue robberies, and he attempted to run officers over with a tan Mercedes Benz, according to the Seattle Police Department, which is conducting the investigation into the fatal shooting. 

Bellevue officers were serving warrants to the suspects who live in Seattle, near 43rd Avenue S and S Hudson Street, just before 5 a.m., according to Seattle Police Department spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb.

They noticed the tan Mercedes that was a suspect vehicle in the robberies, according to Whitcomb, and the officers noticed that one of their suspects was inside the vehicle.

"The suspect noticed the SWAT officers, too. He put the car in reverse and backed up with such velocity and disregard that he struck a parked Ford F-250 pickup truck and pushed it several yards into the street. The Bellevue officers gave multiple commands for the suspect to stop. The suspect then switched the car into drive and stepped on the gas," wrote Whitcomb on the Seattle Police Blotter blog, the official blog of the Seattle Police Department.

Three Bellevue police officers, concerned about getting run over, shot the man, Whitcomb wrote. One officer discharged a handgun and two discharged rifles, according to Seattle PD. The suspect struck a second vehicle before coming to a stop, Seattle PD reported.

Robbery detectives questioned and released a second man, unrelated to the search warrant, according to Seattle PD. No one was found in the residence.

Seattle Police Robbery detectives will complete the search warrant service, Whitcomb wrote.

Information on the three officers involved was not immediately available, said Bellevue Police Department spokeswoman Officer Carla Iafrate.

Iafrate said that the standard procedure in cases of officer-involved shootings is that the officer would be put on paid administrative leave during the investigation.

UPDATE 10 a.m., March 22: 

The man who was shot was in a gold colored Mercedes parked outside the house in South Seattle, said Bellevue Police spokeswoman Officer Carla Iafrate.

Information on the man's involvement with the people in the house and what prompted the shooting was not immediately available, she said.

Seattle SWAT members took over the perimeter of the house after the man in the car was shot, and one person in the house was taken into custody, Iafrate said.

UPDATE, 7:40 a.m., March 22: KOMO News is now reporting that the man shot at a house in south Seattle has died, and that he was shot by a Bellevue officer in a car outside the residence. Bellevue police were attempting to arrest two suspects in a string of robberies in Bellevue and Seattle.

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Original story: 

A man was shot multiple times while Bellevue police were attempting to arrest two suspects at a house in south Seattle early Friday morning, KOMO news is reporting.

The person shot was not a police officer, but details on the incident were not clear Friday morning. The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center, and police remained outside the house near of 42nd Avenue South and South Hudson Street.

The shooting occurred at about 5 a.m. while officers were serving an arrest warrant for two suspects in a string of robberies in Bellevue and Seattle, Bellevue police spokeswoman Carla Iafrate said.

The man shot is believed in his forties, but Iafrate would not say what circumstances led to the shooting. KOMO is reporting that SWAT teams are on the scene and preparing to secure the house.

"The situation is fluid right now," Iafrate told KOMO. "They need to finish clearing that house, make sure it's safe, and then we'll continue with the investigation."

For the KOMO story, click here.

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