Police still looking for witness in Munchbar shooting
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Despite arresting a teenage suspect last month, the Bellevue Police Department is still looking for a witness to the Christmas Eve shooting at Munchbar that left one man dead and another injured.
According to police, the man in the white hat caught on surveillance footage appeared to be with the victim during the shooting.
More than 600 people, including several Seattle Seahawks players, were crowded into Bellevue Square's Munchbar Dec. 24 following the Seahawks' win over the San Francisco 49ers when gunshots erupted.
According to police, 19-year-old Ja'mari Alexander Jones shot and killed a 30-year-old Seattle man after getting into a fight with him.
Jones is one of three teens responsible for the beating death of "Tuba Man" Ed McMichael in 2008.
He was arrested near Tacoma while driving a stolen car a week after the Munchbar shooting, according to police.
The Bellevue Police Department is asking anyone who knows the identity of the man in the white hat to call them.
Trying to get information from a culture that has taught for generations not to speak to authorities is difficult at best. The fear that you will be labeled a 'snitch' by your peers and harassed or worse has allowed crimes in this culture to run unchecked and promulgate. I'm not talking about 'race' either, don't bother throwing that card, I'm talking about a culture that glorifies defiance, anger and criminal behavior
 @SargeMcC Don't worry, I know that's what you've been taught to believe. There are millions who fall for the U.S Okie Doke everyday. Didn't you watch Mitt Romney Campaign? And for the record it's not " a culture that glorifies defiance, anger and criminal behavior." That's what your forefathers wrote to reflect the fact that "they" were a culture that glorified defiance, anger and criminal behavior. From the periods of slavery, migration, reconstruction, Jim and Jane Crow, Civil Rights, and up to initiative I-200 today, which eliminates equally for people of color in Washington State. Check your history. It's a small percentage in the "Culture" that ruins it for everyone. The same way there can be a 100 people in a party having a great time, but two riff rafts decides they are not having enough fun. So they ruin the party by starting a fight or shooting the place up. And here's another tidbit for you. The "No Snitch Policy started in the 50s and 60s when rouge white cops would go into black community and commit crimes, than turn the people in the communities against each other by saying "your neighbors committed the crimes." And that's when black people stop trusting police and (No Snitching) was born. So again, I know it's much easier for you to sit back in your bunker and speculate. But you're so far wrong you can never be right. But don't worry, I'm sure "those cultures" are use to America's propaganda by now.
Why do they need to contact this guy? His friend is dead and they have the shooter? How about using the Surveillance footage of the shooting as evidence in court.
@Hehateme There is probably more to the story that has not been made public. That is pretty typical in any investigation.
Probably want to ask him why he's wearing a goofy hat pulled over his ears inside a club, and doing public crotch grabs...
 @Throbbinhood LOL. I was thinking the same thing.
It's Ed McMichael, not McMichaels.Â
 @lakeview You're right. I apologize for the error and will correct it immediately. Thanks.
 @MichaelHarthorne KOMO put out several articles at the time of this incident using the name "Ed Michael" as well, such as this one.Â
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 @lakeview Thanks. I'll apologize on behalf of whoever put those up and get them correction.