A 20-year-old Kent man fatally shot inside a East Hill apartment died with a criminal history, including a recent charge in June of residential burglary after he reportedly broke into an occupied Tukwila home.<\/p>\n
The man also received a shorter sentence in King County Superior Court for a 2016 assault in exchange for a guilty plea because he was 17 years old at the time of that crime.<\/p>\n
Daveon Robbins died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, which ruled his death a homicide. Kent Police are still trying to determine what led to the shooting around 2:55 a.m. Nov. 8 when Robbins was found inside an unit at the Row Apartments, 25614 98th Place S. Officers also found a 27-year-old Seattle man with a gunshot wound to his leg at nearby French Field next to Kent-Meridian High School.<\/p>\n
As of Thursday, no arrests had been made in the shooting, the fourth homicide this year in Kent. Detectives said the two men reportedly did not know each other and they have ruled out gangs or drugs in the case, said Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner. Police found two guns reportedly connected to the shooting.<\/p>\n
Robbins allegedly confronted a woman and a male friend of hers at the apartment, according to a report this week to the City Council from Chief Administrative Officer Derek Matheson.<\/p>\n
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Robbins in June with residential burglary. Robbins was booked into the King County jail on July 8 for the charge, but posted $10,000 bail and was released the same day. His burglary case had yet to go to trial, but was dismissed on Wednesday because of his death, according to the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
Robbins reportedly entered a home in the 4000 block of South 152nd Street in Tukwila on or about April 2 or 3. He climbed in an open window at the home in the middle of the night, according to charging papers. He tip-toed around the woman’s home as she slept in a bedroom, took a laptop computer from the kitchen and exited out the same window he entered.<\/p>\n
Detectives used images of Robbins from cameras inside the home to identify him. Tukwila Police released photos of the suspect via news organizations and social media. An employee with the state Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration recognized Robbins from work as his probation officer.<\/p>\n
Detectives tracked down Robbins in June at the Nisqually Tribal Jail in Olympia, where he was being held on a state Department of Corrections violation. When shown photos of himself inside the Tukwila home holding a laptop, Robbins told police the woman was a friend. He denied taking the laptop. The woman told police she did not know Robbins.<\/p>\n
Robbins had convictions for second-degree assault with a deadly weapon in 2016 (originally filed as first-degree assault), attempted second-degree robbery in 2014 and felony harassment in 2015, according to charging papers.<\/p>\n