Henry Eugene Washington biography: 10 things about Texan man who exchanged gunfire with Jonathan Shoop, Mustafa Kumcur

Henry “Hank” Eugene Washington is an African American man from Texas, United States. He made headlines after exchanging gunfire with Bothell City Police Department officers Jonathan Shoop and Mustafa Kumcur.

At around 9:40 p.m. on July 13, 2020, Washington was driving a black Pontiac G6 without a license plate in Bothell City, Washington, USA. Shoop and Kumcur pulled him over so he stopped, briefly talked to the cops and took off in his vehicle.

Chased by Shoop and Kumcur, Washington’s car stopped in the 10300 block of Woodinville Drive in Bothell City after hitting someone riding a Lime scooter and crashing through the center median. It was then that he exchanged gunfire with the two officers.

Shoop was shot in the head and died at the scene while Kumcur was wounded and rushed to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington for treatment. The wounded cop was released from the hospital at 4:40 a.m. on July 14, 2020.

After exchanging gunfire with two Bothel City Police Department officers, Washington called the police department of Junction City, Kansas, USA and confessed to shooting officers in self-defense. He also called a hospital in Arizona and said he killed an officer and he was going to call his mother then hung up.

When Washington called his mother, he confessed to her that he just killed an officer and wounded another. At around 3:20 a.m. on July 14, 2020, he was arrested while he was trying to get down from the rooftop of a business and in the afternoon of the same day, he was booked into the King County Jail in Seattle on suspicion of homicide.

Washington was wearing a gray tank top and baggy sweatpants during his encounter with Shoop and Kumcur. Here are 10 more facts about Washington:

1. He is the son of Carolyn Washington, an alumnus of University High School in Waco, Texas.
2. He attended A.J. Moore Academy in Waco. He went to the University of Phoenix in in Tempe, Arizona, USA.
3. He has lived in different parts of Kansas including in Junction City and Fort Riley. In Kansas, he was accused of criminal threat causing terror, assault of a law enforcement officer, eluding police, violation of a protective order, interference with law enforcement, stalking and aggravated intimidation of a witness.
4. He has lived in different parts of Texas including Waco and San Antonio. In Texas, he was convicted of evading arrest, possession of marijuana, felony drug possession and making terroristic threats.
5. In 2019, he moved to South Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. He later moved to Phoenix, Arizona. He worked as a flagger at construction sites in Arizona, where he was charged with disorderly conduct and threatening.
6. He was 37 years old when he exchanged gunfire with Shoop and Kumcur on July 13, 2020.
7. On July 14, 2020, be was booked into the King County Correctional Facility in Washington. He was charged with assault, resisting arrest and vehicular assault. He was denied bail.
8. On July 15, 2020, he did not attend the initial hearing but defense attorney Amy Parker represented him. King County District Judge Joe Campagna ordered him held without bail for investigation of first-degree murder, first-degree assault, vehicular assault and attempting to elude.
9. On July 17, 2020, it was revealed in the charging documents filed in the shooting of Shoop that the bullet that struck Shoop’s head was from Kumcur and not from him.
10. On August 3, 2020, he pleaded not guilty to aggravated first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and vehicular assault.