Good shooting Officer Geoghagan, the dead scumbag won't be robbing any more citizens this holiday season.
Dead robbery suspect no stranger to crime
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Sunday, December 15, 2002 - 12:00 a.m. Pacific
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Dead robbery suspect no stranger to crime
By Duff Wilson
Seattle Times staff reporter
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The teenage suspect in a string of ATM robberies with phony handguns, who died Friday after being shot by police a day earlier, had five previous convictions as a juvenile and was facing an arrest warrant in a new case.
Deontrel Marcelle Davis, 17, of Seattle, died 25 hours after he was shot in the head while being chased by police. Seven officers had staked out an automated teller machine in the Wallingford neighborhood.
A 25-year-old man was also arrested. He is believed to have been the lookout in at least 11 other ATM robberies in Seattle in the past month, police said. His identity was not released.
Davis had pleaded guilty to various crimes since shortly after he turned 15, including assault, theft, robbery, obstructing a law enforcement officer and felony drug possession, King County Superior Court records show.
He had twice been charged with first-degree robbery, meaning he used what appeared to be a deadly weapon. One of those charges, in 2000, was reduced with a guilty plea to misdemeanor assault, and the other, in 2001, was dismissed. Further details were not available.
Davis served 15 days in jail as a 15-year-old, 15 to 36 weeks in a juvenile detention facility as a 16-year-old, and 20 days in jail last summer, the records showed.
Last month, Davis was charged with another felony for taking a vehicle without permission. When court notices were returned unclaimed, a judge issued an arrest warrant Thursday, the day Davis was shot.
So far no groups are making an issue of the latest police shooting in Seattle. Several recent cases were controversial, especially when a white officer shot a black suspect.
"This was pretty cut-and-dried," Seattle police spokesman Scott Moss said yesterday. "Part of it is captured on the ATM video — at least the portion of the robbery — and we have several other pictures of these guys robbing ATM machines."
Davis, wearing a ski mask, grabbed an ATM customer, slammed him against a wall, stuck what appeared to be a pistol in his back, and threatened to kill him if he didn't hand over money, police said. The weapon turned out to be a commercial paint-spray nozzle shaped like a pistol, partially covered by a wool cap.
Police officer William Geoghagan, 31, an eight-year veteran, fired twice at the fleeing Davis, hitting him once in the head. Geoghagan has been placed on paid administrative leave, routine in shooting cases.
A 1985 Supreme Court case, Tennessee v. Garner, allows police to shoot a suspect to prevent an escape if police have "probable cause to believe that he has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm."
Duff Wilson: 206-464-2288 or dwilson@seattletimes.com.
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