Suspect in scenario of missing Oakley woman Alexis Gabe fatally shot by authorities in Washington

The ex-boyfriend of an Oakley girl missing given that January was killed Wednesday in Washington when authorities tried out to arrest him for her murder, authorities reported Thursday.

Users of the Pacific Northwest Violent Offenders Activity Force killed Marshall Curtis Jones, 27, as they attempted to arrest him in Kent, Clean., in accordance to a statement issued Thursday morning by Oakley law enforcement. The assertion mentioned Jones billed at officers with a knife.

Oakley and Antioch law enforcement Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Jones in Kent, Wash., charging him with Gabe’s murder, authorities reported. Officers from the Seattle Police Office, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Place of work and the U.S. Marshals Support were at the scene, Oakley police said.

Gabe hasn’t been found due to the fact Jan. 26, when she was at Jones’ property in Oakley. Until eventually Thursday, they have instructed the community Gabe’s was a lacking-individuals circumstance, and the metropolis experienced available a $100,000 reward for info foremost to her return.

Oakley Police Main Paul Beard is envisioned to converse at an 11 a.m. Thursday press convention at police headquarters. Beard has named the circumstance the greatest in the short 6-calendar year background of the section.

Police experienced reported considering the fact that her disappearance that they thought Gabe did not vanish by incident or decision. Gabe frequented Jones in Antioch on the evening she went lacking.