Man, 18, arrested in fatal South Seattle shooting

Seattle

Seattle police have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with a fatal shooting during a street fight in South Seattle last month.

The man was booked into the King County Jail just after 1:30 a.m. Friday on suspicion of homicide, said Seattle police spokeswoman Reneé Witt.

Around 11:30 p.m. Jan. 26, police received a 911 call reporting a large group of people yelling and fighting, followed by a second emergency call reporting gunshots. When officers arrived, they found 18-year-old Perry Henderson in the back seat of a beige Cadillac DeVille in the 5500 block of South 119th Street.

Henderson had been shot in the stomach and was rushed to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center. He died Feb. 6.

Homicide and gang-unit detectives "didn't get a whole lot of cooperation" from people at the scene, said Witt, who credited "good, old-fashioned police work" for the arrest. She could not provide details as to what led detectives to the 18-year-old suspect.

Tukwila

Slain man a brother to basketball stars

The 24-year-old man who died of gunshot wounds in Tukwila on Thursday morning has been identified as Allen Winston, the adopted brother of local basketball stars Lodrick and Rodrick Stewart.

Mike Bethea, Winston's basketball coach at Rainier High School, said he spent Friday afternoon comforting the Stewart family. Winston played basketball at Rainier Beach High school before he graduated in 2003.

"He was one of those kids that was never going to be the big superstar like his brother, but it didn't bother him," Bethea said. "He was the best teammate. He'd root everyone on and push them to be better."

Winston died at Harborview Medical Center on Thursday after he was shot in his car Wednesday night while driving in Tukwila, police said. Tukwila police are asking that anyone with information about the shooting call 911.

Winston stopped by the basketball courts last week to show Bethea his newborn son, the coach said. "We all knew him really well. ... We're really going to miss him."

Lynnwood

4,000 pot plants seized in homes

Investigators say they seized more than 4,000 marijuana plants from homes in King and Snohomish counties during raids last week.

More than 1,100 plants were found in houses in Lynnwood and Everett, and, in a related case, about 3,200 plants were seized in two houses in King County.

Detectives believe the indoor pot farms were connected to Vietnamese criminal groups.

"These were professional jobs. We're not talking 10 plants in a closet," Lynnwood police Sgt. Jim Nelson, a supervisor with the South Snohomish County Narcotics Task Force, told The Herald newspaper of Everett.

Detectives arrested three people in the raids Thursday, all in Lynnwood. The group also is believed to be connected to two growing operations in King County, Nelson said.

Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle, said no decision had been made on whether to bring federal charges.

Seattle Times staff and The Associated Press