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Island County has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a former Navy master chief who was shot while trying to help the county’s Sheriff’s Office deputies and its scene commander subdue an armed sailor following a 2017 standoff.
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Heath Garcia was shot in the foot with a high-powered rifle slung across the back of a deputy trying to arrest one of Garcia's shipmates, Nicholas Perkins, who was drunk, suicidal and had barricaded himself in his house with several weapons, including a fully automatic M4 rifle.