'Tuba Man' killer charged in Bellevue bar shooting
SEATTLE -- The Renton teen thought to be responsible for a Monday morning shooting inside a crowded Bellevue bar is still at large, but that didn't stop prosecutors from charging him with second degree murder on Friday.
Detectives believe 19-year-old Ja'Mari Alexander Jones opened fire inside Munchbar in Bellevue Square just after 1 a.m. on Monday. A 30-year-old Seattle man, Deshawn Milliken, was killed in the shooting, and another man was injured.
More than 600 people were inside the venue at the time of the shooting to watch the Seattle Seahawks victory over the San Francisco 49ers and celebrate afterward.
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said several players were at bar following the team's victory, but none were injured.
"It was crazy, I just heard some shots and I just got down," said witness Dejuan Lofton. "It was just wild."
Monday's shooting was far from Jones' first run in with the law. He is one of three teens who beat to death Ed McMichael -- better known as "Tuba Man" -- in October of 2008.
Jones was sentenced to less than a year in juvenile detention on a first-degree manslaughter charge in that case.
Friday's murder charge, which includes a firearm sentencing enhancement, carries a sentence range of 20 to 28 years in prison if convicted as charged. Prosecutors are requesting bail in the amount of $5 million.
Jones is believed to be driving a white Nissan Maxima with Washington license plate AHZ1672. Bellevue police describe Jones as 5 feet 8 inches tall weighing 140 pounds and say Jones should be considered armed and dangerous.
Detectives believe 19-year-old Ja'Mari Alexander Jones opened fire inside Munchbar in Bellevue Square just after 1 a.m. on Monday. A 30-year-old Seattle man, Deshawn Milliken, was killed in the shooting, and another man was injured.
More than 600 people were inside the venue at the time of the shooting to watch the Seattle Seahawks victory over the San Francisco 49ers and celebrate afterward.
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said several players were at bar following the team's victory, but none were injured.
"It was crazy, I just heard some shots and I just got down," said witness Dejuan Lofton. "It was just wild."
Monday's shooting was far from Jones' first run in with the law. He is one of three teens who beat to death Ed McMichael -- better known as "Tuba Man" -- in October of 2008.
Jones was sentenced to less than a year in juvenile detention on a first-degree manslaughter charge in that case.
Friday's murder charge, which includes a firearm sentencing enhancement, carries a sentence range of 20 to 28 years in prison if convicted as charged. Prosecutors are requesting bail in the amount of $5 million.
Jones is believed to be driving a white Nissan Maxima with Washington license plate AHZ1672. Bellevue police describe Jones as 5 feet 8 inches tall weighing 140 pounds and say Jones should be considered armed and dangerous.
Hey KOMO! Tuba man's name was Ed McMichael not Ed Michael at least get the deceased's name right.
@madminer15  The really sad part of that is they linked to their own story with the correct spelling. Who wants to bet that it is never corrected?Â
I sent KOMO an email at webteam@komo4news.com and politely informed them of the mistake in case they don't read these comments. Doesn't look like they are interested in correcting their mistake. That's too bad for their readers.Â
Ya votes for Democrats, .....Ya gets judges, legislators and governors who put poor misunderstood dirt bags like little Ja'Mari out on the streets.
Elections have consequences.
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Someone knows where he is... Put those sons of (you know whats) in jail too. Anyone who associates themselves or protects this loser doesn't deserve freedom.
20-28 years? He KILLED a man, and wounded another. Find him and kill HIM, before he does it to someone else. He's obviously shown NO regard for human life since he was a teenager, and we don't need scumbags like this released into our society in 20 or so years after they've been "rehabilitated." No matter WHAT the bleeding hearts say about prison, "you can't FIX stupid." Put this puke down.
For whatever reason, liberals can't equate this punk with a rabid animal. If they could see that, we could put a whole bunch of sick animals down. It's what a humane society does with a suffering animal, and for the good of society. Don't let it bite anybody else.
 @SargeMcC Way to generalize. I'm a liberal. I support the death penalty for first degree murder. I support locking this kid up and throwing away the key. I don't live under the illusion that jail rehabilitates inmates. There are more of us than you realize, but Fox news doesn't tell you that, does it?
 @SargeMcC I see, you're on komo so therefore you never go to foxnews.com, right? Never watch Fox news either? Got it. That's sound logic there. I'm liberal, but the world isn't black and white. Another piece of advice they don't offer on fox.
@Dragnipur, you're funny. Here I am on KOMO's site, and you're accusing me of watching too much Fox. Evidently you're not quite as liberal as you think.
 @Wolfen Yup, what you said. This guy is a lowlife.Â
With luck the authorities will gun this animal down and save the taxpayers the expense of a trial and incarceration.
@KOMO_Sapiens  Oh no that can't happen. If it does you know the ace of spades would get thrown!
In the gangster world this punk is well known, now even more so. He's being hidden and moved around by the rest of his punk friends and they all need to be prosecuted. Milliken was surely no angel, but he didn't deserve this. My question is; If Jones was so well known, and he is, he's a punk gangster hero to them, how did he get in Munchbar? Was the place full of thugs at the time? Are these who the Seahawks hang out with?
@SargeMcC Just because I hang out in Applebees does not mean I know whether the person next to me has committed a crime.
 @kockatoo  @SargeMcC But it would mean that you have equally poor taste in food.  Ha!
 @kockatoo  @SargeMcC You would never catch me at an Applebees. There is guilt by association. Besides, what would my friends think if they saw me at an Applebees? There might be intervention and counseling.
"...Are these who the Seahawks hang out with?..."
Whether or not that's true, that whole "scene" or genre condones, breeds, and promotes violence.
Why anybody gets into that crap is beyond me....
At 5'8" and 140 pounds I can tell you right now what his role in prison will be. He better get used to carrying a purse!
Don't worry... he'll get a whole year of jail this time! That will fix the problem. Not. It's amazing how ignorant the public is.
Ya know - I get kinda weary of replies like this. Yes - the juve system as it pertains to violent crime has been the joke of late, especially in King County. However....
Although he should have never been at that venue, let alone out on the streets to begin with (following the Tuba Man episode - but that's buckle-kneed weak King County justice for you) - with the aggravated circumstances involved in this case, he is gonna be toast for quite a while, that is - assuming he makes it to an attorney's office or arraignment hearing ALIVE, first.....
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 @Throbbinhood It's the same King County justice system that let Jeremy Stevens walk away from rape charges back around 2000. Look at what an illustrious life he has led since.
Hope the person or persons harboring this fugitive get the same sentence.
And when he IS caught, and he will be - I sincerely hope KOMO and other news outlets will follow up on the story in SPECIFIC regards to those that may have aided him since. Since the Maurice Clemons fiasco - that type of follw-up should be automatic with these types of events!!!
They'll catch him, lock him up for maybe 10 years in a place that just breeds gang mentality , crime and violence. Then turn him lose again. I went to prison in this state in 1979. I got a G.E.D. and learned a trade that has kept me employed for the last 30 years. That stuffs all gone now. With for profit prisons it makes no sense to rehabilitate criminals. That's your customer base and you want them to go out and re-offend. There's no easy solution I know. But I do know this, a man will feed himself and his family. And if he can't get a job, he will steal, rob, and even kill to do it. Myself included.
 @Richard Vert I don't believe he was thinking about his family or the family of the man he shot and killed.
You want him? Place a bounty, dead or alive. Someone close to him, would do us all a favor and bring him in. For the right price, I may look for him.
 @Caring Citizen I like that...and if brought in alive...try him...if guilty, take him out and hang him...he has positively proven that he is a worthless piece of resource wasting meat.
 @Woodswalker  @Caring Citizen Let me modify that a bit..... " a worthless piece of excrement excreted from the lower intestinal cavity of a swine laying on the ground rotting with flies all over it".
 @Caring Citizen Crime stoppers.Â
He was charged in ausencia. He stormed the bar when 600 patrons were trying to enjoy the football game. He is going to be put away for a very long time. We need to educate people to spread love instead of violence. People need to read more romance and human behavior books. http://x.co/rEIt
 @Ted Limon Get a job, spammer.
I think Ausencia is a new cologne.
 @Ted Limon Do you mean charged 'in absentia'?
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@Ted Limon umm.. seattle seahawks were present during the shooting Theodore. WAKE UP LITTLE STEWIE !!!!!!
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So we can all agree on Mylon's Law?
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"Any juvenile charged and convicted of a violent crime may be incarcerated up to the age of which he can no longer be covered under his parent's or guardian's health insurance (currently age 26)."
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Left or right, we are all in agreement? Thank you, I am a public servant and I solve problems on a daily basis. No need to thank me.
Another creep with a revolving door to jail!!
Okay... you can charge anybody with anything, but WHERE IS this guy? A charging document is meaningless without the "corpus" (body) part of habeus corpus.  Sounds like the local PD is outfoxed, and we need to bring in the US Marshals/FBI/ATF to actually take this guy into custody.Â
 @Whobeke Just post a reward for him...Dead or Alive.
 @Woodswalker  @Whobeke I like the former option. Saves taxpayers the costs of prosecution and incarceration.
@Whobeke...how exactly do you know ANYTHING that the "PD" is up to? We do appreciate your comment, however, Baretta.
hope he resists arrest and the cops are good shots
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I'd settle for average shots so he squirms a bit. Him and the other "troubled youths" that beat the Tuba man to death really need to be found face-down, floating in the Sound.
Isn't there already to much trash in the sound? I wouldn't do that to the fish! Maybe face down in the 'brown trout pond'.
@silens Face down in the Sound sounds PERFECT for this POS!
'If you bring a gun to a crime, you will likely do federal time'
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/If-you-bring-a-gun-to-a-crime-you-will-likely-do-federal-time-159467225.html
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OK, let's see it happen!
Gangster Thugs killing Gangster Thugs... Cool with me. Beats our judicial system. Glad no innocent bystanders were killed this time. You people hiding him now will also charged! Lets hope JaMari gets a bullitt in the head and alleviates a taxpayer trial and life in prison. Â
 @Jimmy Jam The man that got shot and killed was far from a thug
 @Syretta Spates  @Jimmy Jam Let's see....guilty for his part in the Mardi Gras riots...weapons violations....busted for fraud in 2008. He was definitely a thug.
Yep, he was a thug. Did time for shipping a bunch of mj through the mail in Arizona and being in possession of a gun. Who knows what all he got away with before he was caught.
 @Syretta Spates any information on the victim?