Gunfire rips through Seattle Memorial Day weekend
May 27, 2012, 3:21 PM | Updated: May 28, 2012, 8:31 am
Five drive-by shootings and one home invasion are among
the rash of violence that erupted in Seattle over the
holiday weekend.
A 23-year-old man was shot in the Greenwood neighborhood
of north Seattle around 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Fremont Avenue
North and North 86th Street.
When the police arrived, however, the victim wouldn’t tell officers any details.
He was taken to Harborview Medical Center with a gunshot
wound to the leg.
That follows four gang related drive-by shootings in South Seattle early Sunday morning, as well as a home invasion in the Northgate area where a man was shot in the chest.
The first drive-by shooting took place around 1:00 a.m.
According to police reports, a black car that looked like
an Acura Integra passed a house on the 4600 block of South Frontenac Street and fired into the house and surrounding cars.
Police found over 20 bullet casings on the street in front of the house. Reports say the house has been shot at several times before.
At 3:00 a.m. two more houses were hit, one on South
Columbian Drive and the other on South Holden Street. In
total, over thirty rounds were fired from several
different rifles and handguns.
The Seattle Police Department’s Gang Unit is investigating
all three of these shootings.
The last shooting, which occurred at about 3:10 a.m., took
place in the 4200 block of South Henderson Street. A
female resident of the house was standing at her bedroom
window when six shots were fired in her direction.
The victim said that she did not know who the shooter was,
but from the position of shell casings police determined
the assailant must have gone south on Martin Luther King
Jr. Way.
No one was injured in any of the drive-by shootings.
There was also a shooting Saturday night near the Folklife
Music Festival where a man in his thirties was shot in the
leg. A man was shot Thursday afternoon while driving with
his family through Seattle’s Central Area. Police say he
was struck by a stray bullet following an argument between
two people nearby.
This could be the most violent weekend in Seattle in
years.
