(Longview, WA) -- Police are releasing the identity of a tire shop worker who was stabbed to death in the store's parking lot in Longview. The Longview Police Department says 48-year-old Brian Whatley was killed Friday behind the Superior Tire shop. Police say Whatley was in the parking lot waiting to start his shift when a suspect identified as Gilbert Platt allegedly stabbed him. Police arrested Platt at his home Friday afternoon on charges of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery.