Officer: Suspect Calm When Stopped Prior To Terror Rampage at Seattle Jewish Center

April 16, 2008

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A Seattle police officer who pulled over Naveed Haq said everything about the encounter seemed routine, leaving no hint that in less than 20 minutes, the man would walk into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and open fire.

Officer Glen Cook told jurors Tuesday that he has since gone over that July 2006 traffic stop in his head over and over, “kind of second-guessing myself.”

“Was there something I missed?” he wonders. “Should I have seen something?”

But what may be most important for jurors in Haq’s ongoing King County Superior Court trial is the 32-year-old Tri-Cities man’s demeanor during that brief run-in with police, which happened so close in time to the deadly shooting.

His attorneys contend that he was delusional when he forced his way into the federation’s Seattle offices with two guns and a knife on that sunny Friday afternoon and shot six women, leaving one of them dead.

Prosecutors contend that he’d planned the attack and knew exactly what he was doing: Trying to make a political statement with his rant against Jews, U.S. foreign policy and the troops in Iraq.

On July 28, 2006, Cook said, he noticed Haq’s white Mazda pickup headed north on Third Avenue at 3:37 p.m. — a rush-hour time when the busy downtown street is mainly limited to bus traffic. He flipped on his lights and chirped his siren. Haq pulled over.

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