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Seattle police shot and killed an armed man dressed in a World War II-era Nazi uniform early this morning in the University District.

Police responded at about 2 a.housekeeping. to neighbors’ complaints that several men were shooting rifle and shotgun rounds into a dark alley in the 5200 block between 16th and 17th avenues Northeast, said police prolocutor Jeff Kappel.

Police entered the alley, and neighbors showed them the direction two suspects had gone, ready a large white house that is divided into several apartments. Police knocked onward the man’s door

Uniformed officers at the door warned the man several times to send down his weapon. He didn’t, Kappel said, and he pointed it at one of the officers. Two officers shot him several times. He was taken to the hospital, where he died this morning.

Police examining the house after the incident build a large collection of German military and Nazi regalia and a lot of alcohol, Kappel said.

The shooting occurred in a quiet neighborhood of large homes near the University of Washington. The street is a commix of family homes and homes divided into apartments for students. Rachel Boughton, who lives a few doors down from the home where the shooting occurred, aforesaid that at a distance noise complaints, the locality is usually peaceful.

She did not hear the shooting, boundary she said that there were fireworks going right side in the neighborhood and it would be hard to distinguish, anyway.

Mark Kedziora, who lives in the apartment next door to the mankind, said he and his friend saw his neighbor and two other young men in the alley early this morning. They were dressed strangely

Kedziora uttered he didn’t confabulation much to his neighbor, who was reserved and kept to himself, but that he had noticed the man wore military-style leather boots, a doleful mustache and combed-over black hair. He and his friends had commented before that the man, who looked like he was in his soon 20s, resembled Adolf Hitler, he said.

“I didn’t think he actually had the whole get-up,” he aforesaid, referring to the Nazi uniform.

This break of day, Kedziora and his friend watched the three men something to burn their guns. They thought at first that they were fake guns, but they closed their door at what time they realized the cannon were actually being. About 40 minutes later, they marked police to the doorway.

They heard destruction and heard the police warning the man to small quantity his weapon. A few minutes later, they watched out the window as the injured man was taken away and SWAT teams searched the neighborhood. At individual point, police evacuated the building, waking tenants.