Bullet travels through wall, hits young man playing video games

BY Tim Haeck  on January 23, 2013 @ 3:10 pm (Updated: 3:38 pm - 1/23/13 )

Deputies are searching for the person who fired a high powered gun at a four-plex in SeaTac Tuesday night.

A bullet hit a young man as he was playing video games inside one of the units. The bullet went through several walls and a laundry room before entering the apartment where the man was hit in the back.

"It certainly had enough power to make it through a number of walls," says King County Sheriff's Sergeant Cindi West. "We're definitely considering it's some type of high-powered weapon."

West says there were a number of shots fired into the units and authorities do not believe it was random.

"We're still trying to get to the bottom of what exactly led up to the shooting."

There were five or six people inside the four-plex at the time of the shooting. West says, "It's actually lucky that only one person was shot."

The young man shot reportedly does not live at the residence. He was visiting at the time, playing video games with some of the other occupants of the home.

He was taken to Harborview Medical Center and is expected to recover.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Tim Haeck, KIRO Radio Reporter
Tim Haeck is a news reporter with KIRO Radio. While Tim is one of our go-to, no-nonsense reporters, he also has a sensationally dry sense of humor and it will surprise some to learn he is a weekend warrior.
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  • William Lawn wrote...
    Could have been rocks or trees or even a bicycle
    January 23, 2013 2:29 pm
    We've witnesses school rockings, theater treeings and mall bicyclings.

    Ban them all.

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  • calapete wrote...
    so it's true
    January 23, 2013 2:45 pm
    video games are dangerous and breed violence. Ban video games immediately before more kids get shot while playing them.
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  • MmMerrifield wrote...
    well...
    January 23, 2013 5:28 pm
    simulated environments do program your brain to respond a certain way, so yes they tend to influence us.
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  • Hayduke wrote...
    I wonder if he was playing Call of Duty?
    January 23, 2013 2:48 pm
    Ow! Too much realism!
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  • shark75 wrote...
    You beat me to it Hayduke...
    January 23, 2013 2:53 pm
    I wonder if he was turning someone into swiss cheese with his sub-machine gun...
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Video games cause this?
    January 23, 2013 3:34 pm
    Do we know this for a fact? Where is the evidence?

    If we banned these games would we expect to see a reduction in violence? How about the censorship? Does this violate someones First amendment rights?

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  • rational wrote...
    It's me! Ha ha!
    January 23, 2013 5:07 pm
    Where is the evidence?

    The evidence is he was playing a video game and got shot...that's plenty logical to prove causality for a liberal.

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