Surveillance cameras and ammunition found as Spokane police shooting investigation continues

Spokane County sheriff’s deputies are continuing to investigate an armed man who was shot and killed on the Moran Prairie earlier this month.

In a search warrant filed Monday, deputies searched the apartment of Daniel Craven, 53, who was shot multiple times by two Spokane police officers responding to a domestic violence call in 5900 block of South Mt. Vernon Street just outside Spokane city limits in the early morning hours of July 3. Craven was heard firing a gun by multiple witnesses and responding officers. A handgun and spent shell casings were found near his body.

On the same day Craven was killed, deputies applied for a search warrant to investigate his apartment, which is only a few blocks away from where he was killed. There, according to the warrant, they found two wireless surveillance cameras – one in a skylight in the kitchen pointing toward the front door, and a second one in a bedroom facing out a window in the front of the apartment.

Deputies also found a black Asus laptop computer in the living room turned on and hooked up to the internet. In the kitchen they found a “large amount of ammunition,” which they believe could be the same ammunition used during the shooting and a prior incident.

According to past search warrants, deputies believe Craven had a history of stalking and threatening his ex-girlfriend, who made the 911 call July 3 after she heard multiple gunshots coming from the front of her house. Law enforcement responded to similar calls on June 21, when he allegedly threatened her with a handgun, and on July 2, when he was spotted lurking around her yard.

Officers Kelsey Scott and Caleb Martin, the two officers who shot Craven, were both wearing body cameras, which showed the shooting and confirmed that Craven was armed at the time of the incident, according to the warrant.