The Seattle man identified as the gunman in Saturday’s shooting spree on Eagle Harbor was evicted last year from the Lake Union marina where he had been a liveaboard on his sailboat the “Flying Gull” since June 2013, according to court documents.

The Washington State Patrol said Monday that Robert David Yeiser was the gunman aboard the sailboat “Flying Gull” who was shot by a police SWAT team who tried to take him into custody after Yeiser began shooting from his boat toward the shoreline and homes along Eagle Harbor Saturday night.

Police were planning on taking Yeiser off his 55-foot-long ketch in the early morning hours of Sunday, but Yeiser was shot and killed by police after he reportedly aimed a rifle at officers who were approaching his vessel in two police boats.

Yeiser, 34, died at the scene.

No one else was hurt at the end of a dramatic night that saw Yeiser firing at random upon the beach and shoreline homes and later, at police officers responding to reports of gunfire.

Yeiser and his sailboat were at the center of several legal disputes in recent years.

Records in King County Superior Court show that Yeiser was the focus of two lawsuits last year from Commercial Marine Construction Company over unpaid bills.

A judgment in one of the two cases, from August 2016, ordered Yeiser to pay $10,258 and attorney fees and costs to the owner of the slip where his boat had been moored.

In an earlier case, Commercial Marine Construction Company filed a lawsuit against Yeiser in July 2016 to have him vacate his rental moorage slip just east of the Aurora Bridge on Seattle’s Lake Union.

The company had terminated its lease agreement with Yeiser two months earlier, but said Yeiser had ignored a 20-day notice to vacate and was continuing to live in his sailboat at the dock.

Yeiser had been leasing a moorage spot there on Lake Union since June 2013.

Yeiser, who reportedly had been working at the online retailer Amazon in Seattle at the time, was paying monthly moorage fees of $635 a month, plus liveaboard and utility fees.

The company said Yeiser owed $866 in fees through May, plus moorage for a part of June, at the time of his eviction.

According to court documents in that case, however, Yeiser alleged in an email to the company that he was being overcharged.

He also said he wanted Commercial Marine Construction Company to pay him $8,000 for damages to his boat motor and the theft of his dingy.

That email was sent to the company three days after his landlord gave notice that it was canceling his lease.

In a letter to Yeiser, an attorney for Commercial Marine Construction Company disputed the accusation that Yeiser was being overcharged for moorage.

“While the theft of your dingy and damage to your motor is unfortunate, we are not responsible for either loss. The allegation that you have been overcharged is baseless and without merit,” the attorney said in the May 20, 2016 letter.

In court papers, Commercial Marine Construction Company said Yeiser owed the company a total of $3,615 in back rent, utility and late charges, and the firm also sought $6,643 in legal fees.

The marina’s legal team also researched ways to have Commercial Marine Construction Company remove the vessel from the dock as an “abandoned or derelict vessel,” according to legal invoices from the company’s attorney, and to find out if the state Department of Natural Resources could assist in funding to have the “Flying Gull” removed from its moorage spot as a derelict vessel.

The vessel had a much storied background from its early years.

The “Flying Gull” is a “motorsailer,” a two-mast wooden sailboat that was built in 1940 by Sparkman and Stephens in Chicago, Illinois under commission from the Navy.

According to Lee Youngblood, a yacht broker who listed the “Flying Gull” for sale in 2013, the vessel served as a spy boat and sub hunter during World War II.

The sailboat bore no official Navy or military markings, but was reportedly outfitted with equipment capable of detecting submarines below the surface of the water.

It was first used off Long Island, New York, at the start of the war, but later was sent west to find submarines outside the Panama Canal.

Youngblood said the sailboat was quite successful finding enemy subs, and was responsible for 27 submarines sunk during WWII.

Yeiser was living aboard the “Flying Gull” at the time of last weekend’s shooting incident, and police said he had been seen around the waters of Bainbridge Island in recent weeks but was not a longtime visitor to Eagle Harbor.

He had not submitted an application for a moorage spot in the city’s open water marina, according to Bainbridge spokeswoman Kellie Stickney.

Review writer Nick Twietmeyer contributed to this report.