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SEATTLE -- The fatal shooting of Justin Ferrari in the Central District was a tragic case of horrible timing.
Ferrari was an innocent victim, caught in a hail of bullets. The search for his killer went cold until detectives found surveillance video obtained by KOMO News.
The May 24 incident began at 3:40 p.m. when Andrew Patterson was captured on camera boarding a Metro bus headed east into the Central District.
Forty five minutes later, shots broke out at East Cherry and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, and Ferrari, who was driving with his family, was killed.
Police fanned out through the neighborhood looking for the gunman. Witnesses described a black man with braided hair wearing a red-and-black jacket running from the scene. A police canine picked up a scent nearby, but lost it.
Investigators pored through hours of video from Metro buses coming into the neighborhood. That's when they spotted Patterson , who matched the killer's description.
But they didn't have a name yet. They traced the ORCA card he used to pay, but hit a dead end. That card had been in a purse that was stolen the day before.
After grabbing a still image from the video, his picture was sent to eyewitnesses. Witnesses confirmed him as the killer, and a gang unit officer fingered him as Patterson, leading to an arrest nearly three months after Ferrari's murder.
Patterson is being held on $2 million bail. He is due back in court next month.
Ferrari was an innocent victim, caught in a hail of bullets. The search for his killer went cold until detectives found surveillance video obtained by KOMO News.
The May 24 incident began at 3:40 p.m. when Andrew Patterson was captured on camera boarding a Metro bus headed east into the Central District.
Forty five minutes later, shots broke out at East Cherry and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, and Ferrari, who was driving with his family, was killed.
Police fanned out through the neighborhood looking for the gunman. Witnesses described a black man with braided hair wearing a red-and-black jacket running from the scene. A police canine picked up a scent nearby, but lost it.
Investigators pored through hours of video from Metro buses coming into the neighborhood. That's when they spotted Patterson , who matched the killer's description.
But they didn't have a name yet. They traced the ORCA card he used to pay, but hit a dead end. That card had been in a purse that was stolen the day before.
After grabbing a still image from the video, his picture was sent to eyewitnesses. Witnesses confirmed him as the killer, and a gang unit officer fingered him as Patterson, leading to an arrest nearly three months after Ferrari's murder.
Patterson is being held on $2 million bail. He is due back in court next month.
Good work Detectives!! Now let's hope they can keep this scumbag off the streets!