The official statement from Seattle Police concerning Monday’s officer-involved shooting of a seemingly suicidal man in a stolen car talks a lot about him bringing a gun to his head and dropping the gun down again. It doesn’t, however, say anything about him pointing the weapon at officers or threatening them in any way.According to police, a call came in at 2:24 pm on Monday from firefighters who had come to aid a man in a parked car in an alley near South Atlantic Street between 14th and 15th Avenues South in Beacon Hill. The firefighters had supposedly seen the man bring a gun to his head, so they called for police support.SWAT officers soon arrived. According to police:Officers could see a handgun in the subject’s hand and subsequently gave the man multiple commands to put down the weapon. He was jockeying the car back and forth in a manner that seemed indecisive. The man was operating a stick shift and would lower the gun to manipulate the stick. He lowered the gun and raised it, doing so multiple times. SWAT officers saw the man holding the gun to his head. The constant movement of the gun in and out of sight created a dangerous environment. The three SWAT officers fired their service rifles.The man was struck several times and died on the scene. The “dangerous environment” described by officers is not backed by any specific threats to the officers themselves, other than a suspect not dropping his gun and occasionally putting it out of view.It’s not clear how long police negotiated with the man before shooting him. An SPD spokesperson wouldn’t comment on the case other than to refer to today’s statement. The three officers involved are Evan Ehring, Shawn Benshoof and Jeff Geoghagan. All three have been put on paid administrative leave pending an inquest into the shooting, which is standard department policy.The victim has yet to be identified.As the PI notes today, Geoghagan was involved in a controversial shooting back in 2002 when he shot and killed DeOntrel Davis, a 17-year-old robbery suspect, when he thought he had a gun. The gun turned out to be a spray painted water nozzle. Geoghagan was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing.This latest officer-involved shooting is the third this year and comes on the heels of widespread community anger and a federal investigation over SPD’s use of force. Whether the suicidal man in the car posed a threat to anyone other than himself seems to be debatable. What’s not debatable is that any use of extreme force by Seattle Police officers for the time being is bound to be heavily scrutinized by a rightfully skeptical public.