MattB
2014-06-06 19:57:56 UTC
Seattle shooting suspect had mental health evaluations
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-name-suspect-in-seattle-college-shooting/
SEATTLE -- Police say the suspect in a shooting at a small Seattle
university was hospitalized twice in recent years for mental health
evaluations.
Pete Caw is the assistant police chief in the suburb of Mountlake
Terrace, where the suspect, Aaron Ybarra, lives. He said Friday that
officers encountered Ybarra in 2010 and 2012.
Caw says both times, Ybarra was severely intoxicated and taken to
Swedish Hospital in Edmonds for evaluation. In the October 2012
incident, police found him lying in a roadway.
Ybarra was arrested in the killing of a 19-year-old student and
wounding of two other young people Thursday at Seattle Pacific
University. Police say another student pepper-sprayed and tackled him.
The 26-year-old Ybarra has been booked for investigation of homicide
and is scheduled to make a court appearance Friday afternoon.
At an earlier news conference, Assistant Police Chief Paul McDonagh
said the man in custody was not a student at the school.
The afternoon shooting came a week before the end of the school year,
and the situation was particularly tense when police initially
reported that they were searching for a second suspect.
"It appears the suspect acted alone," McDonagh said. Initially, "There
was a report of another person with a weapon, but (investigators) have
not confirmed that."
He said he did not know the gunman's motive or intended target.
Detectives are "working as quickly as we can to figure it out,"
McDonagh said.
Seattle polilce said in a statement late Thursday that they hadn't
"found any connection between the suspect, Seattle Pacific University
or any of the victims."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-name-suspect-in-seattle-college-shooting/
SEATTLE -- Police say the suspect in a shooting at a small Seattle
university was hospitalized twice in recent years for mental health
evaluations.
Pete Caw is the assistant police chief in the suburb of Mountlake
Terrace, where the suspect, Aaron Ybarra, lives. He said Friday that
officers encountered Ybarra in 2010 and 2012.
Caw says both times, Ybarra was severely intoxicated and taken to
Swedish Hospital in Edmonds for evaluation. In the October 2012
incident, police found him lying in a roadway.
Ybarra was arrested in the killing of a 19-year-old student and
wounding of two other young people Thursday at Seattle Pacific
University. Police say another student pepper-sprayed and tackled him.
The 26-year-old Ybarra has been booked for investigation of homicide
and is scheduled to make a court appearance Friday afternoon.
At an earlier news conference, Assistant Police Chief Paul McDonagh
said the man in custody was not a student at the school.
The afternoon shooting came a week before the end of the school year,
and the situation was particularly tense when police initially
reported that they were searching for a second suspect.
"It appears the suspect acted alone," McDonagh said. Initially, "There
was a report of another person with a weapon, but (investigators) have
not confirmed that."
He said he did not know the gunman's motive or intended target.
Detectives are "working as quickly as we can to figure it out,"
McDonagh said.
Seattle polilce said in a statement late Thursday that they hadn't
"found any connection between the suspect, Seattle Pacific University
or any of the victims."