Officer kills shoplifting suspect

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – A police spokesman says a Federal Way police officer fatally shot an armed shoplifting suspect Thursday evening outside a Walmart store in the south Seattle suburb.

Kent police Lt. Pat Lowery said Federal Way officers responded to a shoplifting report and waited outside the store to intercept the suspected thief. After about 35 minutes, the man left the store. Lowery said the man ran when two officers approached him. The man stopped, turned toward the officers and reached for what appeared to be an ankle holster. Lowery said one officer fired.

The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say he had a handgun.