Snohomish Co. Jail death ruled a homicide
EVERETT, Wash. -- The September death of a Snohomish County Jail inmate has been ruled a homicide, according to medical examiners.
William Williams, 59, died in jail on the night of Sept. 14 after jail staff Tased and put him in an isolation cell.
On Thursday, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner ruled the death was homicide.
Williams had been arrested that same night on suspicion of theft for allegedly shoplifting from an Everett gas station.
In September, Aaron Snell with Everett Police said Williams became combative and wouldn't follow jail staff's commands after he was processed into jail, which led to the physical altercation.
"During a normal check, the found the man unresponsive," Snell said after the death. "They started applying CPR to the man, unfortunately the man did pass away."
William Williams, 59, died in jail on the night of Sept. 14 after jail staff Tased and put him in an isolation cell.
On Thursday, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner ruled the death was homicide.
Williams had been arrested that same night on suspicion of theft for allegedly shoplifting from an Everett gas station.
In September, Aaron Snell with Everett Police said Williams became combative and wouldn't follow jail staff's commands after he was processed into jail, which led to the physical altercation.
"During a normal check, the found the man unresponsive," Snell said after the death. "They started applying CPR to the man, unfortunately the man did pass away."
Who cares, one less crook off the street.
@Nightshift So you really think someone who's suspected of theft from shoplifting should be given capitol punishment? Wow! I really hope you're not a judge!
 @Nightshift Oh, I'm sure that someone cares.  After all, he was probably a great man, a wonderful father, brother, son, blah, blah, blah.  Yup, one less crook off the street.  Maybe he was an innocent man; the story does say "suspicion" and "allegedly".
yea... because stealing from a gas station is punishable by death. Really? I don't think he deserved to die for it. Some people are so heartless. I'm sure that someone DOES care... kids, children, wife *blah blah blah*.
 @JustMe98201 I'm not saying that stealing from a gas station is or should be punishable by death or that he deserved to die for it..  I'm saying that he is at least partially responsible for his own demise.  Very much the same as the idiot riding a crotch rocket down the road at a 130 mph; that shouldn't be an automatic death sentence either, but sometimes things just happen that way.  I find it very difficult to have any compassion for someone who has made a poor choice(s) in life and ended up on the wrong side of the coffin.  As your little icon states, "YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID".
I agree with Zoso and Alki_Ninja...why are they ruling it a homicide? I too was looking for page 2...We can speculate, and some will, but if the man was threatening and they tased him....hmm
 @Thunder Why wouldn't it be homicide?  Homicide by it's definition is the killing of a person.  I believe that WA has 5 categories of homicide and not all of them are as bad as some people seem to believe.  I do agree with others though, he shouldn't have got himself into that situation in the first place.
 @SheltonDavey You misunderstood, and perhaps my vague reply left room for interpretation.
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I was not questioning it MYSELF, I was stating that the ARTICLE did not give information. Kind of like a teacher wanting a student to elaborate - the teacher's not giving an opinion, just asking for details.
Shouldn't have stolen anything....Then, after stealing something he shouldn't have started a fight w/ the cops. It sux to be in any kind of law enforcement right now.Â
 @bagsofdirt You really are naive if you think cops don't often manufacture "confrontation" after they taser someone.Â
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And even if he did start a fight, since when do we give the death penalty for people merely suspected of theft? Cops make mistakes all the time: in fact, they are just as human as the rest of us and make just as many mistakes. The only difference is that THEIR mistakes have much more serious consequences for those on the receiving end.
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This "tough on crime" nonsense is why we have incarceration rates that rival those of Russia and China. What, we should now rival them in
Okay, so if they ruled it a homicide, what else? Or ar they just closing the door on this and moving on?
This sucks, but why would they wait until now to tell us this? This should have been disclosed closer to mid-late September... come on Komo, you can do better than that.
 @keepthepeace28 I believe it says perfectly that they made that ruling just today.
So, as for the story, is this Part 1 of 2? Where is the rest?