March 4, 2009 in City

Witness saw ‘look of terror’

Man testifies about encounter with Pete
Karen Dorn Steele
Staff writer
 
Tags: Jay Olsen Shonto Pete Spokane Police Department

The young man pounding on his door at 3:30 a.m., blood streaming from a head wound, appeared “absolutely petrified,” a former Peaceful Valley resident told a Spokane jury Tuesday.

Michael Dale testified for the state in the trial of suspended Spokane police Officer Jay Olsen, who is charged with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment in the shooting of Shonto Pete and the discharge of four more bullets near a cluster of houses in the neighborhood on Feb. 26, 2007.

Dale, who now lives in the Seattle area, said his companion Carol Blackburn woke him up after she heard loud banging …

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