Seattle woman thinks she’s shot in the leg, actually stabbed herself
May 22, 2013, 7:20 AM | Updated: 7:27 am
“Sometimes crimes solve themselves,” Seattle Police noted on their crime blotter Wednesday evening.
A woman limped into a downtown coffee shop at 3rd Avenue and Washington around 2:30 p.m. and said she had been shot in the leg. Her statement sent police cars and fire trucks rushing to the scene.
Traffic was shut down on a nearby street Wednesday afternoon as police searched for a shooter, although no one in the coffee shop had heard a shot.
That’s because there was no gunshot. As medics treated the woman, police determined that she had been carrying a kitchen knife in her purse. Although it was sheathed, the knife had managed to puncture both the purse and the woman’s leg.
The woman was taken to Harborview for treatment.
