Seattle shooter desperate for car after cafe shootings
May 31, 2012, 1:08 PM | Updated: 4:40 pm
Two shootings in Seattle Wednesday that left five dead
just 30 minutes apart and across town have people
wondering how the gunman got to where he was going.
Witnesses are coming forward to piece together what the
suspected gunman, Ian Stawicki, did and how he got between
Cafe Racer at NE 58th Street and Roosevelt Way NE and the
Town Hall parking lot at 8th and Seneca.
Alyssa, of Sultan, told the Dori Monson Show the gunman
tried to flag her down just moments after the first
shooting at 11:00 a.m. She was on 45th Ave. in the
University District headed back to I-5, only about 10
streets south of the shooting scene, with a load of lumber
in her truck when she spotted Stawicki.
“He’s trying to flag me down. He’s looking in the window,
really looking intensely at me, shaking his hands, waving
like he might know me or he wanted a ride.”
Alyssa said she noticed the man’s facial hair, how tall
and thin he was, and even his clothes.
“I could pick him out of a lineup in a minute.”
The light turned and Alyssa drove away. By the time
Alyssa she heard the news, she was on I-5 at Northgate.
“It was unreal. I went through those emotions as soon as I
heard about the shootings. It was that guy.”
She called 911 and gave his description and the direction
he was headed. Alyssa believes he must have caught a ride
with someone to downtown Seattle.
The SeattlePI.com reports
Stawicki took a truck from the Ravenna neighborhood and
abandoned it near Town Hall.
About 30 minutes after shooting and killing four people at
Cafe Racer, police say Stawicki shot a Bellevue mom in the
head at the Seattle Town Hall parking lot.
He killed Gloria Leonidas and took off with her black
Mercedes SUV. Friends say she wouldn’t have let her car go
without a fight. In fact, witness reports to police said
there was an argument before they heard the gunshot.
“It would make sense that if she was approached by
somebody and he wanted to take her car, that she would
have told him to get lost,” a co-worker of Leonidas told
97.3 KIRO FM.
Leonidas was rushed to Harborview Medical Center where she
later died.
“I absolutely think that could have been me and my kids.
I feel so bad for her and her family. It’s horrible,”
Alyssa told Dori.
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