Gunshots lead to Everett man wanted from earlier incident

EVERETT, Wash. - Officers arrested a man wanted from a previous incident after shots were fired into an Everett apartment building late Wednesday.

Police responded to the scene, an apartment complex in the 2500 block of Lexington Avenue, at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a reports of shots fired and a car fleeing the scene.

Officers surrounded the building and evacuated some of the residents, but later determined that no one had been hit by the gunfire.

An investigation found that officers had responded to a previous domestic violence incident in a different unit in the same apartment building about a week ago. A firearm was found outside the building in the earlier incident and a warrant was issued for the arrest of a man suspected in that case.

Then, as officers investigated the most recent shooting, they discovered that the shots appeared to come from the direction of the apartment involved in last week's incident.

Police entered that apartment and found the man with the outstanding warrant from the previous incident.

The man was placed under arrest, but investigators still aren't sure if he fired the shots in the most recent incident, and they say it could be two unrelated issues.