Updated: 2:29 PM PST March 2, 2021
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. Spokane Valley detectives are searching for a man suspected of shooting another man during an armed robbery in the parking lot of a restaurant on Saturday night.
A caller reported at about 8:20 p.m. on Saturday night that two men were fighting in the parking lot of Black Angus in Spokane Valley, which ended with one man being shot and suffering life-threatening injuries, according to Spokane County Sheriff s Corporal Mark Gregory. The suspect then allegedly used the victim s vehicle to flee the scene, Gregory said.
A deputy responding to the scene saw a vehicle similar to the victim s traveling west on Mirabeau Parkway toward Pines Road, according to Gregory. When the deputy turned to approach the suspect vehicle, the driver accelerated and started driving at a high rate of speed, crossing into oncoming lanes while traveling east on Trent, Gregory said.