PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles fugitive who allegedly shot at his roommate’s on-again, off-again boyfriend has been formally charged with attempted first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Mario W. Hackney, 45, remained at large on Saturday.
He was charged Thursday.
Authorities said he shot at a man who was fleeing in a pickup truck — hitting the windshield but missing the intended victim — outside of a residence on the 200 block of Cameron Road near Port Angeles on Sept. 20.
Clallam County sheriff’s deputies have been checking locations where Hackney is known to frequent.
Sheriff Bill Benedict said he believes that someone who knows Hackney eventually will spot him and provide his location.
“I think he’s going to be showing up pretty soon,” he said.
Hackney, who also goes by Don Lennon, is considered armed and dangerous. He is 5-foot-9, 190 pounds with several tattoos on both arms and his chest.
Tips by phone, online
Anyone who sees Hackney is asked to phone 9-1-1. Anonymous tips can be left with the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office at www.clallam.net/sheriff.
“We’ve been receiving calls here and there from people who saw someone who may have matched the description that we’ve followed up on, but we really haven’t got anything solid,” said Ron Cameron, chief criminal deputy in the Sheriff’s Office, on Saturday.
“There’s nothing to suggest he is in the area, nor do I have anything to suggest he left the area.”
Hackney was featured Friday on Washington’s Most Wanted on KCPQ. His case was still the lead item Saturday on the Washington’s Most Wanted website, www.q13fox.com/mostwanted.
According to court documents, the man whom Hackney shot at had arrived at the residence to pick up his on-and-off-again girlfriend at about 11 a.m.
He told Clallam County Sheriff’s Detective Stacy Sampson that he knows Hackney and “does not get along” with him.
The man told investigators that he called his girlfriend on the phone, drove to her residence to pick her up and revved up the engine of his pickup to let her know he had arrived.
When he stepped out of his truck, the woman “began screaming at him to leave and to get out of there,” Sampson wrote in the certification for probable cause.
The man said he saw Hackney and a “couple of other people about 40 feet away coming toward him and Mario [Hackney] was holding what looked like a sawed-off 20 gauge shotgun,” Sampson wrote.
‘No doubt in his mind’
After ducking to avoid the buckshot, the man looked up and saw Hackney reloading the gun.
He told investigators he had “no doubt in his mind that Mario was going to shoot and kill him.”
In his haste to flee, he backed the pickup into a ditch, authorities said, and while running, he fell, injuring his hands, knees, elbows and chest.
Hackney, who also fled on foot, escaped a multi-agency dragnet by land and air that lasted until 8 p.m. on the day of the incident.
His white minivan was spotted three days later in Diamond Point.
Sheriff’s deputies intercepted the Nissan Quest near Blyn around midnight and chased it about 4 miles up Woods Road, where it crashed into an embankment.
Hackney disappeared into the woods, and tracking dogs were unable to find him.
Sampson wrote in court papers that he observed injuries on the victim — and damage to the truck — consistent with the man’s statement.
Hackney is prohibited from possessing or using firearms.
He has nine felony convictions for second-degree identity theft, drug possession, malicious mischief, possession of stolen property and second-degree burglaries, Sampson said.
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