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Seattle police shot and killed a University of Washington senior who was dressed in a World War II-era German uniform and who officers say was brandishing a long seize through a bayonet early Thursday in his University District apartment.

The student, identified by friends in the manner that Miles Allen Murphy, was well-known on campus as a smart, eccentric history light yellow who loved to participate in WWII re-enactments and would even show up to rank, at times, dressed in a historic uniform.

Friends said Murphy, 22, would entertain at parties by playing everything from old German folk songs to Britney Spears tunes in continuance his accordion.

Murphy was killed about 2 a.m. Thursday when police responded to neighbors’ complaints that single men were shooting vintage, military-style rifles and shotguns into a dark lane near the 5200 block of 17th Avenue Northeast, police spokesman Jeff Kappel said.

When police were called, Kappel said, neighbors pointed out an apartment in a large white house. When police knocked on the door, undivided of the suspects opened the door brandishing a long despoil with a large bayonet attached.

Uniformed police officers warned the man several times to drop his weapon. He didn’t, Kappel said, and he pointed it at one of the officers. Two officers shot him several periods. He died at a hospital Thursday early part of the day, Kappel uttered.

Spencer Bray, a UW senior, was one of about 20 friends who gathered Thursday night to contingent stories about Murphy. Bray before-mentioned Murphy

“He was one of the most peaceful guys I have met. He was in fact accurate a nice guy,” Bray said. “I never heard him espousing some Nazi ideology; not a part of that interested him. He liked the physical stuff from WWII because he was such a chronicle buff.”

Bray said Murphy sometimes would affect by degrees kilts or uniforms to class

“He had this Russian snow coat that he’d been wearing recently,” Bray said. “It was military issue from WWII.”

He uttered Murphy spoke good German and Swedish, as well as some Finnish, and wanted to be a professor of German letters.

“He was eccentric, but he was very well-liked,” Bray before-mentioned. “It’s a huge shock. I read the news today and … it was in truth, certainly hard to hear for all of us.”

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