Shooting victim arrested near Pioneer Square, gunman sought
SEATTLE -- A shooting victim is in police custody as Seattle police continue to search for the person who pulled the trigger.
Police spokeswoman Renee Witt said the victim, Martin Duckworth, was conscious and alert when he was was taken to Harborview Medical Center about 6 a.m.
Duckworth was shot at least twice near 3rd & Washington, but Witt said the man could not tell investigators who shot him or what happened.
Michael Cox was nearby waiting for a cab and said he saw the wounded man fall from the passenger seat of a small red car.
"He was running around trying to get help," Cox said. "Then the car doubled back... opened the door like to let him in, to help him, soon as he got in they pushed him out and he landed back on his head."
It was discovered Duckworth had a long criminal history, and was wanted for failing to check in with his corrections officer, Witt said. He's now under arrest at Harborview Medical Center, and will be taken to jail when he's released.
Police still don't know the motive for the shooting.
Police spokeswoman Renee Witt said the victim, Martin Duckworth, was conscious and alert when he was was taken to Harborview Medical Center about 6 a.m.
Duckworth was shot at least twice near 3rd & Washington, but Witt said the man could not tell investigators who shot him or what happened.
Michael Cox was nearby waiting for a cab and said he saw the wounded man fall from the passenger seat of a small red car.
"He was running around trying to get help," Cox said. "Then the car doubled back... opened the door like to let him in, to help him, soon as he got in they pushed him out and he landed back on his head."
It was discovered Duckworth had a long criminal history, and was wanted for failing to check in with his corrections officer, Witt said. He's now under arrest at Harborview Medical Center, and will be taken to jail when he's released.
Police still don't know the motive for the shooting.
what happened to seattle?
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Yeah go to Kiro and check out the "victim's" picture. Doesn't look so innocent to me.
Need to pick better friends. Hopefully it's a wakeup call.
I wonder it the small red car the victim fell from was the same small red car that was involved in the shooting of the Burien girl on Monday.
I avoid Pioneer Square and I've lived in the city for over 10 years. You have City Hall Park right there, aka, City Homeless Park. You have a direct path from the ghetto to the clubs, Yesler Way, and you've got all the crime and drunken machismo that follows.  Â
@lakeview ...Complicated by complete idiots wandering around with handguns they are likely prohibited to carry but which we cannot by any means control because the only way we could *possibly* control it would be to put up checkpoints all over town and require that people submit to searches in violation of the Fourth Amendment. ...And by more idiots who think that if THEY also carry handguns "legally" this will somehow protect them from fast hot lead better even than does Kevlar. ...Real "red blooded" Americans who are just so confident that they can smell an assault in time to draw and fire before they themselves have an extra hole in the head. IMHO.Â
"...for all they that take the gun shall perish with the gun" --Matthew 26:52 paraphrased
Just heard on the radio that the victim is now in custody, Guess he had a warrant out.
@DarkParty I assume you mean "suspect" right? The victim went to the hospital.Â
@lakeview Nope, Victim is in custody at the hospital.
@DarkParty @lakeview Oh. OK. LOL. Thanks for the update. I'm sure it took the police all day to find him there.Â
Hmmmmm I wonder if the gun used was bought and given as a birthday present to hunt with. Now a days you never know.
I wonder if he stole it from a troll. Now a days you never know.
Yes no place is perfect, we all get our share of crime, but I have yet to see what was described in the article happen where I live.
@izwideopen It sounds like it was people he knew and not a statement about where they pushed him out of the car.
Poor guy!! Who needs friends when you have friends like that?
@reelin21Â ...or enemies for that matter.
Yikes, we were down there recording at a studio when this happened, maybe 3 blocks away? Â Scary....Â
Sounds to me like.... The person(s) who shot this individual pulled him back in possibly to take the victim for a heavily wooded ride to finish what they started.... Does the victim have a past?
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yikers!!!!
Scum!
And my friends and family wonder why I try my best to stay out of Seattle.
@APenny4MyThoughtsaaaand let's hear it from the proper folks in suburbia ... Please, indulge us, stay in your 4-bedroom, two-car garage house and keep contributing to urban sprawl.Â
@Sunshine @APenny4MyThoughts Thank you! I love my 5 bedroom 3 car garage house. You should come over, we have great BBQs. I might clear out some trees in the backyard for a pool also. Might use my gas powered mower also
You Neanderthal!
Iâll have a steak rare please. :>)
@APenny4MyThoughts perfect, less traffic for us
Keeping it real in the hood.
@windowseat - So everyone that lives in Pioneer Square are losers? Â I'll have to let my wife and neighbors know. Â
@Shannon The thing is, these perps likely didn't even live there. Sounds like they were driving by and one pushed another out of a car - after the guy was shot.
@Shannon Not everyone, just an alarmingly high percentage of people
@Mihai CelRau With the courthouse being right there, plus the housing for "recovering" addicts make for a bad mix sometimes.  I work on The Ave, though, and have had far more incidents of frightening encounters there than ever in Pioneer Square.  But I am a city girl, born and bred, so I suppose the urban element doesn't disturb me as much as it would some people.  I could never live in the suburbs where everything looks the same, almost nothing but chain stores, and you have to take a car to go anywhere.  I've lived in a small town that I really enjoyed, but it was a town of 70,000 with a Univeristy and two colleges with a thriving, charming downtown area (and I could still walk to nearly any place I needed to go.)
@Shannon @Mihai CelRau University Way is a disaster also.Â
Pioneer Square and its not even the weekend, oh heck its close enough, blast away losers...
The buyback really helped didn't it? We're already on track to double the gun violence rate from last year.Â
@NW-Economist The gun buy back helped the people that wanted to safely dispose of unwanted firearms. The only people that claim it was some scheme to reduce gun violence are the liars like you trying to make political points. Of course, even you are smart enough to know this, which is why you are a troll. Â
They have enough video cameras around there. I'm hoping they caught something. I wonder if the guy that was shot is going to name who did it.
@The WA MamaOf course he won't name the shooter, they never do...Snitches get stitches.Â
@JK15 He's just been shot in the face, getting stitches is better than what he just got.
In yo face! Seattle, Gotta love it!