A social visit in an Everett apartment turned deadly during the winter of 2022. Thirty-two-year-old Shane Michael Bryant was at a friend’s Evergreen Way apartment on the morning of February 1, 2022, with his girlfriend of twelve years and another friend, 32-year-old Stefan Deremer. An argument between Bryant and Deremer escalated when Deremer produced a semiautomatic handgun and shot Shane in the face; the bullet passed through his head and lodged in a nearby television.

Bryant was taken first to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett and then transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Despite surgery to treat brain damage, his injuries were non-survivable and he died on February 5, 2022. Deremer was arrested at the scene and initially charged with second-degree murder; he later pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced in August 2022 to over 14 years in prison.

If anyone was at that apartment that morning or has information about what led to the argument, please share what is known.