Lake City drive-by shooting may have been caused by road rage
Sep 3, 2012, 10:16 AM | Updated: 2:19 pm
Seattle Police now say the shooting death of a 42-year-old man near Lake City Friday night might have been directly related to a road rage incident.
Officers responded to the 7500 block of 15th Ave. NE just before 7:30 p.m. August 31 when bystanders called 911 to report multiple shots fired. They arrived on the scene and found the male victim sitting in the driver’s seat of his car, bleeding from several gunshot wounds. He was rushed to Harborview Medical Center, where he later died.
A preliminary investigation indicates that the suspect pulled up next to the victim in his car and for reasons that may be related to a road rage type of incident, fired at him. Authorities have not said what has led them to this conclusion.
The suspect then fled the scene in his car, which witnesses say may have been a compact gray or silver BMW, and remains at large.
The suspected shooter is described as a white male in his late 20s to early 30s with dark hair. No other information about the suspect or the victim has been released.
