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Two Tacoma police officers charged with second-degree murder in the death of Manuel Ellis were given lower bail amounts than the vast majority of other defendants charged with the same crime in Pierce County since 2017, court records show.
Ellis was not fighting back. Three Tacoma officers charged in Manuel Ellis death
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 1 day ago Stacia Glenn, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
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Decision in the police death of Manuel Ellis
More than a year after Manuel Ellis died in police custody, the attorney general charged three officers in his death Thursday, May 27.
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Three Tacoma police officers have been criminally charged for the death of Manuel Ellis, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Thursday.
Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins were charged Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter. Timothy Rankine was charged with first-degree manslaughter.
Updated: 11:11 AM PDT May 18, 2021
TACOMA, Wash. The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney s Office has declined to file charges against a man who told police he shot an alleged car prowler over the weekend.
Adam Faber, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office, said Tuesday that all indications show that the 32-year-old man acted in self-defense after the alleged car prowler advanced on him while holding an object to use as a weapon.
The shooting happened Sunday night in the 2500 block of South G Street in Tacoma. The man saw someone prowling his car and shot him after a confrontation, according to Tacoma police.
The estate of a man shot in the head and mortally wounded by a Pierce County sheriff’s deputy after a high-speed chase that ended near Port Orchard is suing, alleging the deputy used excessive force.
Brent Lee Heath, 35, died on Oct. 3, 2018, a year after Deputy Carl M. Shanks shot him at the conclusion of a 12-mile police chase that started on the Key Peninsula in Pierce County on Sept. 21, 2017.
Heath’s death had not been previously reported.
An investigation by the Kitsap Critical Incident Response Team, led by Bremerton police, found the Acura that Heath was driving, which was stopped and had been surrounded by police near Olney Avenue SE and Beach Drive, had been disabled by spike strips.