Body camera video from 2022 shows Aleksandr Shablykin rejecting police authority years before investigators say he fatally stabbed four women, including his mother.
TACOMA, Wash. — Newly released body camera footage is offering a stark, earlier portrait of Aleksandr Shablykin, the man suspected to have stabbed and killed four women on Washington’s Key Peninsula last week before being shot and killed by a deputy.
The video, recorded during a 2022 traffic stop in Gig Harbor, shows Shablykin disputing the authority of police officers in a tense roadside exchange that ended without violence—but not without incident.
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