A suspect wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Lynnwood man in a Fred Meyer parking lot last week was arrested in California Monday, according to the Lynnwood Police Department.
The 26-year-old woman accused of stabbing the 62-year-old man to death last Wednesday was arrested in the Oakland area Monday, said police spokesperson Joanna Small.
The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office last Friday identified the victim as Greg J. McKnight of Lynnwood.
Around noon Jan. 27, police responded to the Fred Meyer in the 4600 block of 196th Street Southwest, where witnesses said the suspect stabbed the victim multiple times during an argument. The suspect then fled the scene in a vehicle with two other individuals. McKnight was transported to Harborview Medical Center, where he died from his injuries.
Detectives immediately began investigating and after several days were able to identify the assailant from witness information and ultimately obtained an arrest warrant.
The two individuals who are believed to have been with the suspect during the incident have also been interviewed by detectives; no additional arrests have been made.
The suspect — who is from the Chicago area — was booked in the Alameda County Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, Calif., and is waiting to be transferred to Snohomish County.
–By Cody Sexton
Amazing and good how police working so hard and are able to tract down the people who commit these very shocking crimes. I am glad to hear that this suspect was apprehended.
I just wanted to reach out and let those who work so hard in law enforcement know that the work they do is appreciated by the majority of the people. Sometimes, we tend to keep silent and let a few dissenters take center stage. Thank you for hanging in there through these difficult times.
Stilll want to defund the police? I don’t hear anything from the BLM supporters clogging the EdmondsWay / 100th Ave W intersection everyday.
Good. I hope this means that our rainbowbowed city off all colors and same goals just sticks together. Our differences discussed and understood. Our opinions all matter.
We are in a place that will require patience, genuine interest and lots of conversation.
We should cry together, try together and make Edmonds happily a true stick together village.
All of Edmonds a town of love, respect and genuine caring.
I’m in. All the way…Now, let’s get to work and have some fun while we work together, getting to know each other…ALL of us. We ALL defend and nature one another.
KIRO news had a follow up report into the investigation on this murder.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-arrested-california-connection-with-fatal-lynnwood-stabbing/GYDFWL5WYJBRLFV5JH7BXX7LXY/
According to investigators, 62 year old Greg McKnight was returning to his handicap parking spot on his electric scooter that was blocked by a Nissan Sentra that was parked illegally on the yellow horizontal lines preventing him access to his car. A Fred Meyer employee saw McKnight try to access his car, but was unable to as the murder suspect 26-year-old Shayla Baylor, was standing with the door open preventing access to the handicap spot and McKnight’s car.
When McKnight tried to close the door to get in his car, Baylor started yelling to not touch her car, and than stabbed McKnight who later died from his injuries with a foot long knife. They than fled the scene.
A tragic a pointless loss of life. stabbing someone to death because they were trying to get into their vehicle in a handicap spot while an illegally parked vehicle was blocking them. My friend just came back from Japan where violence there is almost non existent because it is so far beyond social norms. The number of murders in the US per 100,000 people is over 16.5 times higher than that of Japan.
Where are we at as a society where someone believes this is normal and acceptable behavior? How in the world do we start to change that?
Still don’t want any law enforcement? This is the things that will continue if we continue to act like naive fools.
Absolutely correct Deborah.
There is a tremendous lack of understanding of the repercussions from the ‘defund’ crowd. Nikkita Oliver, who was a major Mayoral candidate in Seattle, stated in an interview last year that ‘we can just keep adding more and more social workers until the police are no longer needed.’ That represents an extremely dangerous lack of understanding on what the cut in police services has meant for the rise in crime and murders across the Country.
The social worker program in Ashland that Portland is looking to emulate, has an average of an 8 hour response time. It is still an important and useful program, just like it is important to have a full time social worker in Edmonds. However the belief that this will replace any major areas of police functions is a misunderstanding that has lead to hundreds of unnecessary murders Nation wide.
From Minneapolis, to New York, to LA, a reduction in police forces has resulted in a massive increase in murders. The result of the Defund movement has been to cause FAR more murders than the police killings that they protest against. For those who actually care about BLM, the defund movement should be their #1 enemy if they are actually striving towards the goals of reducing the unnecessary murders of black people.
Too often however, the cause of the ‘defund’ movement is driven by misguided white politicians who will likely not bear the lethal consequences of the drop in police numbers, and simply use the policy to make themselves feel better about themselves, while ignoring the deaths they are creating.