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Family urges Everett council to review police response after delayed welfare checks in missing-person mental-health case
Summary
Julie Smith, a longtime Everett resident, told the March 12 City Council that delayed and inadequate responses from multiple law-enforcement agencies following a reported mental‑health crisis may have contributed to the death of her fiance and urged the council to address policy and resource gaps.
Julie Smith, a longtime Everett resident and former chair of the Everett Salary Commission, told the City Council on March 12 that failures by multiple law-enforcement agencies and gaps in procedure contributed to a delayed response in a missing-person and active mental-health crisis that ended in her fiance’s death.
Smith said her fiance, named in her remarks as Angela ("Ange") Kaylee Lonnie Silva, left their home March 2 at 4:22 p.m. during an acute mental-health crisis. Smith told the council she called the Everett Police Department and told dispatchers her fiance had expressed intent to kill herself and had access to a firearm. Smith said a rookie officer, Tyson Johnson, called her back but declined to initiate an immediate search and told her searching would not begin for a…
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