Coast Guard officer riding Lime e-scooters with friends killed after he exchanges words with man in Prius in road-rage attack: Cops

A lieutenant with the U.S. Coast Guard was riding electrical scooters with friends successful Washington state erstwhile a antheral changeable him dead, authorities say.

Isaiah Bolar, 18, faces a complaint of second-degree murder successful the decease of 29-year-old Connor Overstreet, MyNorthwest reported. He besides is charged with attempting to elude a police vehicle, according to King County tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime.

On Aug. 23 astatine astir 1 a.m., Overstreet was riding Lime e-scooters with 2 friends successful the country of South 124th Street and South Langston Road successful Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Washington. The unincorporated country is conscionable southbound of Seattle.

A Toyota Prius was connected the roadworthy astatine the aforesaid time, and arsenic it drove by, radical wrong reportedly exchanged words with Overstreet.

One of those radical was Bolar, authorities say.

Though the Prius passed the e-scooter riders, the car seemingly stopped. As Overstreet approached the rider broadside of the vehicle, helium was changeable successful the chest, and the car sped away.

Police person reportedly said Bolar either fired the changeable oregon encouraged oregon helped idiosyncratic other to bash so.

Though exigency unit responded to the area, Overstreet was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

On Aug. 25, constabulary successful Kent, Washington, which is astir 10 miles southbound of Skyway, spotted a Prius. According to authorities, a rider of the conveyance got retired with a backpack and tossed it into a trash can.

Police aboriginal arrested Bolar and spoke with the passenger, who said Bolar handed him the container and said, "Take this." Officers said the Ruger .357 that the suspect allegedly utilized successful the shooting was wrong the bag.

Additional probe determined that Bolar's telephone was successful the country of the shooting astatine the clip of the transgression and past followed the way that the Prius took.

Bolar is expected to look successful tribunal adjacent week.