Auburn Police say Travis C. Pendley blasted James Smith once in the chest with a shotgun and killed him, near Fenster Park on July 18 because he believed Smith had stolen some of his tools.

On Monday, the King County Prosecutor charged Pendley, 31, with one count each of second-degree murder, theft of a firearm and with one count of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.

Pendley is in King County Jail on $2 million bail.

Arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 11 at the Regional Justice Center in Kent.

Pendley has convictions for second-degree burglary (2014), domestic violence assault (2008), taking a motor vehicle without permission (2003) and theft 2 (2003). Previously convicted of illegally possession a firearm in 2011, he has been convicted for misdemeanors such as assault (2005 and 2007), obstruction of a public officer (2003), harassment (2000) and theft (2004).

In her request for bail, Senior Deputy Prosecutor Adrienne McCoy recounted that before the murder, the convicted felon had stolen a shotgun and ammunition from an acquaintance and told another friend that he was “upset with Smith for stealing his tools and that he was going to get him.”

Further, McCoy said, on the day of the murder, Pendley armed himself with a loaded shotgun, approached Smith and a friend of Smith’s while they were working on their bicycles, and confronted Smith about the stolen tools.

“When Smith called the defendant, ‘Boy,’ the defendant said, ‘I’ll show you boy,’ raised his shotgun, fired it once at Smith’s chest and killed Smith,” McCoy said. “The defendant shouted ‘H-A (Hell’s Angels) M…… F…!,'” and pointing the gun at Smith’s friend, warned him not to say anything.

A spokesman for the King County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Friday that an autopsy revealed that Smith, often called JR, whom police at first identified only as a transient who’d been living in a tent near the Green River, had died of a shotgun wound to the chest.