Police in Seattle launched video footage on Saturday of their lethal confrontation with Marshall Curtis Jones III, 27, the ex-boyfriend and principal suspect within the disappearance of an Oakley lady, Alexis Gabe.
The cellphone footage, which was taken within the early night of June 1, reveals police outdoors knocking on the door of an condo constructing in Kent, Wash., and demanding Jones come outdoors. When Jones opened the door, he approached officers with an eight-inch serrated kitchen knife.
Two law enforcement officials fired 4 pictures at Jones, who was later pronounced useless on the scene.
In response to police, Jones traveled to Washington State due to a “group of associates” he is aware of there. A joint group from the U.S. Marshals, Seattle Police Division, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Workplace and the Pacific Northwest Violent Offenders Job Pressure confronted Jones.
Gabe disappeared in late January and authorities are actually treating her case as a murder due to forensic proof and a scarcity of any indicators that she is alive, police stated at a press convention earlier this week.
Authorities haven't situated a physique but and haven’t launched particulars about how her dying could have occurred.
The seek for Gabe and a $100,000 reward from the Metropolis of Oakley resulting in her whereabouts continues to be lively, stated police and Gabe’s father, Gwyn.
“He was our daughter’s old flame,” stated Gabe’s father at a June 2 press convention, referring to Jones. “They have been collectively for 3 years. He received alongside properly with (her) two brothers and her cousins. He turned a part of our household. We had no thought he was able to doing one thing like this to her.”
In response to information stories, Gabe’s father acquired a name from Jones’ mom shortly after the confrontation in Seattle. In response to Gabe’s father, Jones’ mom stated she was “ashamed” she had not reached out earlier and didn't know something about Gabe’s whereabouts. Gabe, 24, acquired her EKG technician certificates not too long ago from Contra Costa Medical School.
Gabe, 24, had not too long ago acquired her EKG technician’s certificates and went lacking on Jan. 26 after being final seen in Antioch. The next day, Gabe’s automotive was discovered deserted with the keys nonetheless inside by members of the family in Oakley. Police searched Jones’ home twice shortly after Gabe’s disappearance — however to date haven’t launched any particulars of what they might have discovered.
Antioch police say they wiretapped Jones’ cellular phone in April and have been in a position to gather proof that later led to a homicide cost by the Contra Costa County District Legal professional’s workplace. Gabe’s cellphone case was discovered in Antioch in February however police didn't launch data on it till it was analyzed at a lab. Earlier than Jones was shot, authorities had not named him as a suspect to the general public to forestall Jones from realizing that police have been constructing a case towards him.
Group members in Antioch and Oakley arrange search events and canvassed neighborhoods with fliers for months after Gabe went lacking. The Klaas Children Basis, a Bay Space-based group that helps discover lacking youngsters, turned concerned with the search and billboards went up alongside Contra Costa County’s Freeway 4 urging members of the general public to come back ahead with any data.
Whereas Jones is the primary suspect in Gabe’s disappearance, police stated they imagine he had “assist alongside the way in which” from a number of people, however haven’t named anybody publicly or made any arrests.