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People inside a home on South 102nd Street near the Rainier Country Club heard a series of gunshots about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. (Photo courtesy King County Sheriff's Office)

South Seattle gun battle kills one, injures another

BY Chris Sullivan  on March 20, 2013 @ 5:01 am (Updated: 3:56 pm - 3/20/13 )

One man is dead and another is in critical condition Wednesday morning after a gun battle in South Seattle.

People inside a home on South 102nd Street near the Rainier Country Club heard a series of gunshots about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. Then they heard the sound of a running engine outside. They found a car crashed into a tree and two men shot inside. The passenger was dead. The driver was clinging to life.

The occupants of the vehicle were not the only things hit in the gunfire.

"We know there was at least one other house and one other vehicle in the neighborhood struck by gunfire," said Sergeant Cindi West.

Witnesses at a house in reported hearing two vehicles at the time of the shooting but West says that can't be confirmed. One gun was found in the victim's car.

The driver was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition.

West says it's unknown if the shooting was gang related.

Chris Sullivan, KIRO Radio Reporter
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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    Gang Bangers
    March 20, 2013 5:49 am
    at it again
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    So when do the Liberals
    March 20, 2013 6:41 am
    use incidents like this to push their Gun Control agenda?

    Why wouldn't they?

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  • The Dude Abides wrote...
    Hey, Troll
    March 20, 2013 9:27 am
    stop trolling, you trolling troll.
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  • ratrustle wrote...
    Yet another gun tragedy
    March 20, 2013 7:20 am
    Can we find out if the shooter(s) had permits for their guns and if they went through the current background check process? Maybe the criminals haven't been caught yet and I hope they are soon.
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  • R L M 456 wrote...
    ratrustle
    March 20, 2013 9:14 am
    There is NO WAY that these gang bangers could have a weapon

    remember it is against to law for them to have one

    they must have found it just outside a Seattle Park boundary where it was placed so the "perp" would not pack one into a Seattle Park,

    what a joke our country has become, and we wonder why the rest of the world makes fun of America

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  • bigdogina4x4 wrote...
    ratrustle
    March 20, 2013 11:38 am
    Iy ain't a tradgedy that some piece of trash shot and killed 2 other Pieces of trash. The likelyhood that any of these people had permits is low.
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  • otherpointofview wrote...
    gun battle
    March 20, 2013 7:46 am
    is that what we're calling drive by shootings now? Gun Battles??? trying to go for the shock value are we? i wonder if they were shot by those deadly so called "assult" rifles that the government keeps trying to take away from the people. Or were they just handguns that kill more people in this country, yet the government isn't trying to ban them??? so strange how they got to that logic.
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  • DeereJon wrote...
    gun battles
    March 20, 2013 9:51 am
    This way you get the image of white people shooting at each other. Remember, it is wrong and racist to think black people do anything but love each other unconditionally. The media tells me so.
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  • adiru wrote...
    The Las Vegas incident
    March 20, 2013 10:06 am
    was also called a wild west shootout. But there was only one person doing the shooting.
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  • Tyrone DeVille wrote...
    Just Another Day of Keepin It Real In Da Hood!
    March 20, 2013 10:25 am
    !
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  • seattleJohn wrote...
    Nice...
    March 20, 2013 11:18 am
    This is like the death penalty for one...hopefully two... at a bargain price to the tax payers
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  • bigdogina4x4 wrote...
    Seattlejohn......
    March 20, 2013 11:39 am
    puts it perfectly.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Seattlejohn
    March 20, 2013 12:49 pm
    Hilarious! Good riddance of these friggin morons. Just wait, they'll have interviews with family members saying; they were really good people and they were just getting their lives together....yeah, right!
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  • Newton wrote...
    Gun Battle Oh Right !!. Big gun battle News Tards
    March 20, 2013 11:43 am
    Another stupid stuff drug deal gone bad. Make drugs leagl and this would not happen. Look at mexico they have more citizens killed by drugs. Its already in North America. What do think they are fighting over news tards.
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  • monkeyal wrote...
    This crime scene may straddle the boundry
    March 20, 2013 3:26 pm
    line separating Seattle and unincorporated King County south of Roxbury. South Seattle is mentioned but not SPD but instead King County Sheriff's Office.
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  • CH wrote...
    this is what you wanted republicans
    March 20, 2013 5:04 pm
    drive by coming to your home soon. 2nd amendments rights you know! It's me! Ha ha want to hold my gun?
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Yes CH
    March 21, 2013 3:35 am
    We all know that these guns slingers are law abiding, tax paying citizens. I'm betting they have Obama phones.....
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