Seattle teen shot in leg as suspects try to steal his backpack
SEATTLE - An 18-year-old suffered non-life threatening injuries after he was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery in West Seattle Friday night, according to police.
The victim was walking through an athletic field in the 2600 block of Southwest Trenton Street just after 8:30 p.m., when police say three unknown men came up to him and tried to take his backpack.
One of the suspects reportedly had a gun. Detective Mark Jamieson, with Seattle Police, says the three men assaulted the victim and shot him in the right calf, before taking off.
Neighbors heard the victim yelling for help and called 911. Officers responded to the scene but did not find the suspects.
The teen was treated for his injury and is expected to recover. Police say the suspects did not make off with any of the victim's belongings during the assault.
Detectives continue to investigate the incident.
What was in the backpack?
No description i see. Perfect reporting.
I'm thinking there is more to this story than the boy is saying.
Damn. If they got my kid's backpack, they'd find themselves in prison for a bunch of wrinkled school papers, a history book, candy wrappers, and some moldy fruit. Â REally thugs? Shooting someone for a backpack? The stupidity abounds.Â
Im still trying to figure out why you liberal anti-gun fanatics think that background checks and closing the so called loop holes at gun shows is going to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. They dont buy thier guns legitimitely. They steal them, or buy them on the black market, or trade drugs for them. When are you "Liberals" going to get that through your heads???? This constant assault on our Constitutional rights has to end.Â
@Busyhands I'm still trying to figure out why you pro gun freaks think that background checks are a bad thing.
/legal gun owner
@sleever @Busyhands I personally dont have anything against background checks, but just how are you going to administer one without a registry? This will be impossible to enforce without one, and it is the gun registry that I object to. There really is no other way.
@sleever @Susabelle @Busyhands The issue is that at a brick and mortar place or someone licensed to sell firearms, their business is subject to checking all the records to ensure that all purchases go through a background check. You have a starting point in which to conduct your search in compliance, licensed dealers. Those records are highly difficult to sift through and cannot be used to determine a weapons whereabouts, just ask any law enforcement officer trying to determine a weapons history. So how is the government going to follow up on me if I choose to sell a firearm? First of all they do not know how many of them I have, since not a single one is registered. We do not have any handguns. So... I decide to sell my 308 to my nephew, money changes hands the gun goes... How in the world do you regulate that? Registration of weapons becomes the sticking point. This is were the it splits widely in opinion... There are those of us who believe strongly that the government has no business knowing what guns we own, that history has shown us that registering firearms and controlling ammunition is very often followed by further restrictions. It has been researched quite heavily that there is no cause and effect between the number of guns and crime. As a matter of fact, gun crime is down, violent crime is down, but gun sales are way way up! Not just in recent months, but for the past several years gun sales are through the roof. So, the association that more guns equals more crime just doesnt fit. I do not mind having my background checked, have had it done many times to purchase weapons. Criminals, regardless of what anyone wants to believe, will continue to buy from someone they know to ensure they dont get busted. And lets face facts, the highest number of murders involve handguns in the commission of a crime, not the tragedies that get all the media attention. They will not be going to a gun show... they will not be buying them from Bubba and Hoss. This will be a waste of tax payers money and will not have a single gun off the street.
@Susabelle @sleever @Busyhands I had to do a background check when I purchased my handgun a few months ago.  The feds haven't stopped by my place once.  I don't see the issue. Â
REPLY TO "dmw2913" I tried to reply bellow your comment but it would not accept it-the little circle just kept turning. I have been having alot of problems posting lately.
MY REPLY:Â Really? You are going to use the tax arguement?
If there 100% background check and dealers are selling guns, then your arguement is moot.
If your talking about private dealer that don't require background checks would then have to be taxed- well yes.
" I have never ever seen a gunshow that didn't require a background check for a gun purchase." Then you missed the privare dealers or the commercial dealers who sell from thier privat inventory.
If you are unaware of this, then you have not been to many gun shows accross the country.
When you buy a gun at brick and mortor store, they don't care if you have insurance or a license. They want to know if your a felon or not. But the NRA says criminals won't do background checks. I say then, they just go over to the private dealer. LOOPHOLE!
@snoopy84 There's no such thing as a "private dealer". Private sales yes, but if you're selling in quantity, then you have to have an FFL license.
@snoopy84There are no legal places to sell heroin ANYWHERE in the US yet there  is tons of the stuff everywhere. You can't legislate obedience and a "war on guns" will be about as successful as the war on drugs.Â
You going to ban printers too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8qtJuOFbs4
@NW-Economist @snoopy84 Murders happen daily...  should we legalize murder, since obviously some people will do it anyway?
Wow, looks like more UPSTANDING CITIZENS must have simply FORGOTTEN to turn in their guns at Mayor McGinn's buyback!Â
I'm sure these criminals went through all the necessary background checks and once they realize the error of their ways they will turn in their weapons at the next buyback....
@NW-Economist You obviously didn't understand the purpose of the buyback.
@sims @NW-EconomistAccording to the city and county leaders it was to reduce violence. http://mayormcginn.seattle.gov/716-guns-collected-at-first-gun-buyback-event/
However, according to the crime stats, what has really happened is the same as the last time a buyback happened in the 90s: violent crime, especially gun crime, went up afterwards.
So now they have two separate confirmations that buybacks increase crime. And yet they want to do another one. I didn't realize it was the city of seattle's job to facilitate murder and violence...
@NW-Economist @sims I'd like to see the statistics that show violent gun crime has gone up since the gun buyback which took place less than two months ago.
Must be shoot-a-teen-in-the-leg night yesterday - damn, I missed it!
"Gang Unit detectives responded and will conduct the follow-up investigation."
Hmmm....
To bad the teen wasn't armed himself.
@geo liquor One must be 21 years of age to get a CPL in the state ofÂ
Washington.
Are you advocating that our teens break the law and thus becomeÂ
criminals themselves?
@geo liquor Sure, we all want adolescents walking around with a gun.Â
@geo liquor Yea, great reply! Let's have a few more innocent victims hit with stray bullets while these armed citizens shoot it out. We only had 2 or 3 people minding thier own business when a stray bullet took them out.
Fairly low number for NRA standards. Just cost of doing business.
@snoopy84Â I know, right! No one but criminals should be walking around with guns! This whole attitude of believing that private property should be defended could get someone hurt!
@snoopy84 What loophole? When was the last time you were at a gun show in Washington and purchased one? The ones in Puyallup and Monroe require a background check. Stop with the made-up statistics and take a look at what actually is happening. In fact, my friend is a commissioned police officer. They did a background check on him too!
@snoopy84What happens when criminals can just print guns? You are pathetic.Â
@snoopy84 When you buy a car, from a dealer or private party, you have to regrister the car. When you regrister the car they don't care if you have insurance or even a drivers license. All they care about is being able to tax you. The NRA doesn't have a problem with background checks. They have a problem that a background check will lead to gun ownership becoming a cash cow for the goverment. I have never ever seen a gunshow that didn't require a background check for a gun purchase. And I have never ever read a story here on KOMO that stated the gun used had been stolen earlier.
@Brat If the gun avoacates would at least consider 100%% background checks and close gun show loopholes, maybe less criminals would have guns. Oops, I forgot the NRA logic, only legal citizens would pass a background check, so why punish responible people who want to buy a gun with background check.
Criminals will be part of the 40%% who buy guns without a background check and those would be the illegal gun sales that are made at gun shows and private sales.
It is funny how many of the guns that taken at these shooting aren't reported as stolen-how is that?
Three-on-one, they shot the guy and still didn't get the backpack? Amateurs... or robbery wasn't their main purpose after all.
@Table9Â From the scanner traffic last night it seems the kid fought back pretty hard. So, clarity of purpose maybe?
@Table9Â
Yeah, that sounds strange to me too. Almost as strange as the one in Bremerton yesterday where the woman claimed she was shot by a stranger when she answered her door, when in fact she accidentally shot herself.Â
@Central that was in Bellingham