A 62-year-old man who attacked a Bellevue police officer with a knife was shot and killed late Tuesday near Northeast Eighth Street and 120th Avenue Northeast, authorities said.
Police had been called to a domestic violence disturbance in the 12200 block of Northeast Eighth Street. The man, identified by his wife as John Pebles, was screaming threats and trying to get into an apartment.
"I think John was trying to kill me," his wife Mary Kay Pebles, told our news partner, KOMO/4. "He came to the door and we had a (door) chain but he pounded on the door really hard, and evidently took the black pot and tried to break the window."
An officer, who has been with the Bellevue department for six years, tried to detain the him. Witnesses told police that the man attacked the officer with the knife, and the officer shot him.
CPR was administered to the suspect, but he died at the scene. The King County Medical Examiner's Office is expected to confirm his identity this week.
The Bellevue officer is on paid administrative leave – standard procedure in officer-involved shootings. The department did not give his name.
Watch an interview with the man's wife from KOMO/4 below:
The incident is the region's fifth officer-involved shooting in less than a week, and the second fatal shooting.
On Wednesday, a Seattle police detective shot a suspected bank robber in Greenwood. On July 3, a pair of Snohomish County sheriff's deputies shot an armed man while responding to a domestic violence call.
On July 4, a King County Sheriff's deputy shot a killed a Woodinville man on a domestic violence call. Monday evening, Seattle police wounded a man in the Central District after officers sad he tried to hit them with a white Lexus.
The Bellevue incident is about two blocks from where a man pulled a gun on a Metro bus Monday, though the incidents do no appear to be related.
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