Crime & Safety

Detectives Arrest Suspect In Fatal Shooting Of Yancy Noll in North Seattle

A 30-year-old suspect in the shooting was arrested early Friday morning in North Seattle

Editor's note: The following piece is from the Seattle Police Department blotter.

Homicide detectives have arrested the man suspected of gunning down Yancy Noll at a north Seattle intersection last month.

Acting on a tip, SWAT and homicide detectives served a warrant at a home in north Seattle early Friday morning—less than a mile from where Noll was shot and killed—and arrested a 30 year old suspect in the shooting.

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On August 31st, Noll was driving home from work and stopped at NE 75th and 15th Avenue NE, facing northbound.  A man driving southbound in a silver BMW Z-4 pulled alongside Noll’s car and opened fire, killing Noll. The suspect then fled the scene southbound at a high rate of speed, running the red light at the intersection.

Detectives believe the shooting was the result of road rage.

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The suspect has been booked into the King County Jail for investigation of murder.


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