Shots fired near University Book Store
SEATTLE -- Police have arrested a man who allegedly fired shots near the University of Washington Book Store on Monday afternoon.
No one was hurt, but a window at the nearby Crossroads Trading Co. store was shattered by gunfire. The store is also managed by the University Book Store.
The university sent out an alert shortly after 2 p.m. informing students and staff members of the incident at 4326 University Way NE.
An employee at the clothing business said she heard gunshots, looked up and saw the damaged window and a man sitting across the street in a car.
The employee said she believes the suspected gunman was upset as he had been refused a refund on an item he had previously purchased at he store. He had made threats against store employees on prior occasions.
An employee at another store located in the 5200 block of University Way made a similar statement to police. He said he heard what sounded like shots, looked up and saw that the store window had been cracked.
The employee said he saw a man sitting in his car across the street, shooting at the businesses. He said the suspected gunman is a customer who had been upset over the handling of his insurance claim.
Police said a black Audi fled from the scene, and officers stopped the vehicle a short time later in the 4300 block of Lake Washington Blvd.
Video from AIR 4 showed a man at the scene of the traffic stop being handcuffed and placed into the back of a patrol car.
The 24-year-old man was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of assault, malicious mischief and felony eluding.
No one was hurt, but a window at the nearby Crossroads Trading Co. store was shattered by gunfire. The store is also managed by the University Book Store.
The university sent out an alert shortly after 2 p.m. informing students and staff members of the incident at 4326 University Way NE.
An employee at the clothing business said she heard gunshots, looked up and saw the damaged window and a man sitting across the street in a car.
The employee said she believes the suspected gunman was upset as he had been refused a refund on an item he had previously purchased at he store. He had made threats against store employees on prior occasions.
An employee at another store located in the 5200 block of University Way made a similar statement to police. He said he heard what sounded like shots, looked up and saw that the store window had been cracked.
The employee said he saw a man sitting in his car across the street, shooting at the businesses. He said the suspected gunman is a customer who had been upset over the handling of his insurance claim.
Police said a black Audi fled from the scene, and officers stopped the vehicle a short time later in the 4300 block of Lake Washington Blvd.
Video from AIR 4 showed a man at the scene of the traffic stop being handcuffed and placed into the back of a patrol car.
The 24-year-old man was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of assault, malicious mischief and felony eluding.
There are just as many high IQ idiots as low IQ idiots. Let's not be new.Â
Budget cuts are turning people into violent money thirsty freaks. ;)
That was not a fun alert to receive this afternoon. I am grateful people who were closer to the incident were not hurt and that he was caught quickly.
What an idiot...who reinforced this sort of reaction to life's little events for this moron?Â
Low IQ + Low Anger Management Skill + A Hand Gun = Not a Good Combination Â
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Enjoy your time in prison, and I'm glad nobody got killed or injured.
I'm glad to hear that only a window was hurt.Â
probably some "high" college students out for some "munchies". absolutely sickening what our society has become.
@customerservice And how did you come to that conclusion? By NOT reading the article?
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It is sickening what our society has become... because people like you make our society look unintelligent.
 @customerservice  this is nothing new...  what makes you think that somehow this happening today makes it so much worse than say 60 years ago...   Â
 how about when this country and society actually kept people as slaves...  or when this country and this society actually made it illegal for white people to eat with people of color...?  Â
i guess one shooting today makes things soo  much worse than all those....
It was probably the SPD firing at a jaywalker.
Got urban density?
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I don't think we can blame this kind of thing on urban density. Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Osaka, etc. are all way more dense than Seattle, but their crime/murder rates are incredibly low.
Must not be happy playing Boise state in the bowl game.
Must be textbook buyback time. "Uh, the publisher used a slightly smaller font on the cover so technically, it's a new edition of that $140 book you bought three months ago. So I can give you eighty cents for it."
 @wysoumible Nice to know some things never change:) UW '84
When this filth is found... Liquidate it.
 @TheTruncheon You mean emulate them in their violence? Be just LIKE them? Let's see what the courts decide before we just go trying to "legitimize" offing people we don't like please!
 @JLS1950 You might have felt differently about the fate this "shooter" deserves had you been anywhere near his line of fire...
 @TheTruncheon Q.E.D.
 @JLS1950 More "thugs" hangin', less "gangs" bangin'.
 @TheTruncheon Nope. I try not to be that effing self-centered.
 @JLS1950  @TheTruncheon No he means, like the good Christian he is, that the Ten Commandments are more a guideline than a commandment.  It really said, "Thou shalt not kill, except...".
 @MPS Well, technically - based on Acts 15:19-20 and 28-29 - and other passages - for a Gentile Christian the Ten Commandments really ARE "The Ten Suggestions" or even maybe "The Ten Examples of Righteousness". But most Christians will bite your head off if you suggest that. Technically, all of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (the mitzvoth or "laws" therein) fall into that category as ""wisdom" and "instruction in righteousness" - but NOT binding law to Gentiles and Gentile Christians.Â
However, there is a commandment in Genesis 9 that whoever sheds the blood of another, his blood must be shed by man. Not entirely certain the state of that commandment after Acts 15, although the example of Jesus in John 8 would seem relevant.
But the real issue here is that I have not seen any report that anyone was actually killed or even wounded - so what is the basis of this retributive spirit except bare-faced blood-thirst and rebellion?
The Ten Commandments actually says 'Thou shall not murder'. Murder and kill are similar but they are different. Look it up.
 @JLS1950  @TheTruncheon I know right, the only difference between these bloodthirsty idiots and the criminals we read about every day is the criminals have the guts to carry out their shenanigans
 @Larry*X*K Guts? Or foolishness? Either way, blood-thirst is still blood-thirst, whether expressed in drive-by shootings or in calls for lynchings. It is all the same rebellion and wickedness.
 @TheTruncheon a lot more than blabbering about it on the internet....
 @Larry*X*K Yeah, just like it took a lot of "guts" for Tuba Man's MURDERERS to gang up and beat and stomp him TO DEATH, right?
The courts.....thats a good one.
 @SandyBeach So glad you have exposed your rebelliousness and lawlessness for all to see.
 @TheTruncheon That's a bit harsh...no one knows the story yet.  Chill.
Meanwhile---when a WSU student fell off of a balcony----it was "bash away".
The internet-----bringing awesome ppl together all day long.... Great...isn't it???