SEATTLE – The suspect gunned down by police in a Southcenter hotel has been recognized as retired Navy physician Bruce Coval Meneley.
Meneley was shot and killed by Seattle Police round 3 p.m. on April 17 on the DoubleTree on Southcenter Parkway.
Physique digicam video launched final week by Seattle Police confirmed an operation to confront 67-year-old Meneley, who was suspected of kid intercourse crimes. Officers got here out of a resort room to strategy him, and appeared on bodycam video to tug out a gun from his jacket.
All three officers unloaded on him, firing round 30 photographs.
Based on medical information, Meneley died from “a number of gunshot wounds.”
Bruce Coval Meneley as seen on Seattle Police bodycam video.
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Meneley was a Navy captain and physician who served at Guantanamo Bay, and he spoke with the New York Times in 2016 in regards to the abuse of sufferers on the distant detention middle. He was additionally the commander of NATO Function 3 multinational medical unit in Afghanistan.
Meneley left his function at Gitmo in 2009, then left his NATO role in 2012.
Based on authorities, Meneley was being investigated by the state’s Web Crimes Towards Youngsters Taskforce. Based on Police Chief Adrian Diaz, the suspect believed he was assembly up with two women ages 7 and 11.
One officer was grazed by a bullet within the leg. Their accidents had been minor and so they weren’t taken to the hospital. Nobody else was injured.
Based on a legal grievance obtained by FOX 13 Information, Meneley was charged with intercourse crimes in 2017, when he was arrested throughout a human trafficking/prostitution sting in Bremerton. Detectives posed as a intercourse employee on-line and agreed to fulfill up with Meneley, the place he was really met by Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputies. Meneley’s quantity was implicated in two separate prostitution operations, deputies reported.
Docs from 2017 say that in an interview with detectives, Meneley admitted he had been arrested for the same offense in Texas years prior. On the time, he was diverted to group service and lessons.
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