Police say the 28-year-old suspect robbed a man of $3,000 in late July. The man’s body was found the next morning.
BELLEVUE, Wash. — After seven weeks on the run, the suspect in a deadly robbery in Bellevue’s Eastgate neighborhood has been arrested.
Samuel Hitchcock, 28, was arrested in Portland on Sept. 17, according to a Bellevue Police Department blotter post. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Hitchcock with first-degree murder on Aug. 22 while he was still on the run.
“We weren’t going to stop trying to locate him,” said Captain Landon Barnwell with the Bellevue Police Department. “So we knew it was a
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