Man seriously injured in Central District shooting
SEATTLE -- A man was critically injured in a shooting in the city's Central District on Thursday afternoon.
Police said shots broke out near 27th Avenue and Columbia Street around 4 p.m. Witnesses reported having heard six to 10 shots being fired.
A 41-year-old man sustained multiple gunshot wounds. He was rushed to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, according to medics.
The gunman remains at large. Police are now looking for a black man in his mid-20s to early 30s. He is said to be 5-foot-7 and heavyset, and believed to be riding in a tan Ford sedan with two other people.
The gunman and the victim knew each other, police said, and gang unit detectives are assisting with the investigation.
Thursday's shooting occurred just a few blocks away from the intersection where Justin Ferrari was gunned down in May.
Ferrari was driving with his children and parents when he was struck by a bullet meant for someone else at Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and Cherry Street. He died of a gunshot wound to the head, an autopsy revealed.
A 20-year-old Federal Way man has been charged in Ferrari's death. Andrew J. Patterson pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder charge.
Police said shots broke out near 27th Avenue and Columbia Street around 4 p.m. Witnesses reported having heard six to 10 shots being fired.
A 41-year-old man sustained multiple gunshot wounds. He was rushed to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, according to medics.
The gunman remains at large. Police are now looking for a black man in his mid-20s to early 30s. He is said to be 5-foot-7 and heavyset, and believed to be riding in a tan Ford sedan with two other people.
The gunman and the victim knew each other, police said, and gang unit detectives are assisting with the investigation.
Thursday's shooting occurred just a few blocks away from the intersection where Justin Ferrari was gunned down in May.
Ferrari was driving with his children and parents when he was struck by a bullet meant for someone else at Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and Cherry Street. He died of a gunshot wound to the head, an autopsy revealed.
A 20-year-old Federal Way man has been charged in Ferrari's death. Andrew J. Patterson pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder charge.
Wow we actually when a day or two without any shootings, now we are back to normal Puget Sound.
Probably involves a bunch of people were in the process of turning their lives around.
gee, must been a slow news day...... Â report something unusual......
So ghetto.
"The gunman and the victim knew each other, police said, and gang unit detectives are assisting with the investigation. " - this is the part of the article I stopped carrying about those involved. Let these POS kill each other off.
 @KRM66 How do you know the victim is a gang member?Â
 @Hountoof  @KRM66 Lucky guess.
Very lucky indeed cunny funt. LOL :>)
 @KRM66 The only problem is, as we've seen with the Ferrari incident, these POS idiots sometimes miss and hit innocents...
Why do we permit "gangs" to operate openly in America, anyway? They are basically small domestic terrorist cells which use physical violence to impose their will on others. When I lived in Singapore we basically NEVER had "drive-by shootings" - that type of thing would simply not be tolerated.Â
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If you got caught shooting at someone in Singapore, they'd hang you. They wouldn't try to "understand your plight" and give you a five-year sentence with two years off form good behavior.
 @Whobeke And they publicly cane vandals. And spitting on the sidewalk will get you busted.
I love Singapore!
 @spiffyjumper  @Whobeke I like the idea of public corporal punishment. Cheaper for all of us and likely better for the criminal to not be incarcerated with real lowlifes.
 @Whobeke Step one: getting the barbarians attention. Instituting regular public hangings of the convicted domestic terrorists, to take place near where ever the crime was committed, would be a good start in that direction.
"Civil governments, in their first institutions, are voluntary associations for mutual defence. To obtain the desired end, it is absolutely necessary that each individual should conceive himself obligated to submit his private opinion and actions to the judgement of the greater number of his associates".
- Gibbon
So much safer here...........if you don't know anybody!
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 @longarmofthelaw Thanks for proposing to invade my privacy as if I were a common criminal. There is something called the 4th amendment that prevents such ridiculous witch hunts.
@GreaterCDRes Well, ok. We'll make exceptions of invading your privacy if you meet us outside on your front step and show us your right to bear arms and your piece. The object would be to get those who own stolen guns and unregistered ones. We'll get the know drug dealers and gang members searched.
 @longarmofthelaw  @Furd  @GreaterCDRes "ban those who are not following the law when found they own a stolen or unregistered gun"Â
This is in effect what we have already so how would a law requiring registration make any difference? More laws don't make criminals suddenly stop breaking the law, its just something else they ignore. People don't support gun registration because it has lots of downside and almost no upside.
lets see, by your idiotic response, you know very little about brains only insults.
@Furd @GreaterCDRes Stop whining about gun violence and crime in your area. If you don't support gun registration than fine. Maybe your relatives will wish there was if something ever happened to you and the gun used to shoot you cannot be easily traced. This is why there will soon be a law changed to require gun registration. Gun registration will protect your right to own a gun and at the same time ban those who are not following the law when found they own a stolen or unregistered gun.
 @longarmofthelaw  @LockesChild  @GreaterCDRes Perhaps not but neither do you have a brain.
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I don't have a ten inch nose on my face at least!
 @longarmofthelaw  @GreaterCDRes Firearms do not need to be "registered" and there is no law requiring you to have a "license" to own a gun.
 @longarmofthelaw  @GreaterCDRes "If I were to send Census workers out and it was clear that they were going to ask if you owned a hand gun too, would you lie to the census taker?"
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What a perfect little brown-shirt you are. Just the kind of person that tar and feathers were meant for.
 @longarmofthelaw  @GreaterCDRes Which is why no one in the right mind will support registration of firearms. The only people such registration will impact are law-abiding folks just seeking to either hunt or protect themselves.
Better yet, keep building your bunker and building your cache of weaponry deep in the forested cascade mountains. When the law comes after you, run and hide in your delapidated bunker. I want to watch the news and manhunt because you goofed up and threated your own when a relative asked you to get rid of your guns because you scared them.
@GreaterCDRes What are you hiding? If I were to send Census workers out and it was clear that they were going to ask if you owned a hand gun too, would you lie to the census taker? If you don't have a legally registered hand gun, get it done. The day is coming soon where if you don't disclose that you own a gun when pulled over and display your license to own a gun just like a drivers license is displayed, you could lose your right to own a gun for a year. Just like a dui violater driving drunk loses his license for a year upon failing a breathalyzer in most cases.
@longarmofthelaw No. It doesn't work that way and that is still an invasion of privacy and a violation of my Constitutional rights, as it would be of everyone else that lives in this area.
Perhaps you should take a closer look at this document:Â http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html
 @longarmofthelaw You could certainly seek one but I'm positive it would never happen because it's illegal and all.
 @longarmofthelaw Have you heard of the 4th Amendment or art 1 sec 7 of the Washington State constitution?
welcome to Seatroit!
I like that. It's fittiing and roles of the tongue.
Stop listening to the ACLU and make it a lot more difficult to engage in gang activity.Â
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 @Wickedwitch yeah, but they are poor shots and hit innocent people. Justin Ferrari and Nicole Westbrook both were killed by stray shots from gangbangers like these. I don't care if they kill each other all day long but killing bystanders is unacceptable. The SPD knows who these gangbangers are--I wish they could just start shooting them on sight until they figure out that killing citizens is a bad idea.
 @Wickedwitch Yay lets make incredibly insensitive comments and baseless assumptions about a tragedy that occurred less than 2 hours ago! It's not too soon.
This town is getting so gun happy it isn't even funny. Once I've finished my education, I'm outta this town! Have fun with your high cost of living and crime Seattle!
I bet it was the same 2 guys who got in a bloody fight at the arco station on 23rd and Cherry while I was waiting to pay for my gas.
Oh, a shooting in central district? I'm shocked (sarcasm). It would be news if there were no shootings in central district.Â
 @GeorgeG. yes yes we've heard this before. Spare us the cut and paste comment
holed up in my house? not paranoid, not me, just scared to go any wheres nowadays. Gee wonder why?
@Cindertang Be safe. :-) I used to go to Garfield.... sad it's gotten so violent in that area
Here we go again.