Suspected carjacker shot by deputies identified

The man shot and killed by Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies early Friday has been identified as Charles Michael Shands, 33, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Deputies fired at Shands from two locations, about a half block apart, simultaneously after he emerged from a burning car he had just allegedly carjacked, said sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer.

Shands lived in Frederickson and was in the Air Force at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

The medical examiner was conducting an autopsy on Shands’ body Saturday.

This story was originally published April 15, 2017 at 2:30 PM with the headline "Suspected carjacker shot by deputies identified."