Search

Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & Nightlife

« Asphalt Alchemy: Converting Streets… | Did Somebody Say Books? »

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Crime Man Shot in Head Goes Back to Bed

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM

A 25-year-old Capitol Hill man called police last week after he was shot in the head while he slept.

According to a police report, on May 22nd, at about 10:30pm, the man was sleeping in his apartment in the 300 block of E Harrison Street when someone fired a bullet into his bedroom.

The report says the bullet penetrated his apartment wall and his pillow, and struck him in the head. The man apparently "felt well enough to sleep through the evening" and notified police the following day at 6:30 p.m.

Officers searched the man's bedroom and a found .22 or .25 caliber bullet inside the man's pillow. "An entry and exit wound in the pillow could clearly be seen," the report says, noting that officers found blood on the man's pillow, although he only sustained minor injuries and declined medical attention.

Police determined the bullet was fired from an adjacent apartment and tried knocking on the door. When no one answered, the SWAT team entered the apartment and located a pellet gun, but nothing that would have fired the bullet found in the man's pillow.

Officers locked up the apartment and left a note telling the neighbor to contact the East Precinct. Police are still investigating and have not made any arrests.

Share via

Comments (14) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

I like how they describe the pillow as having an exit wound.

Posted by Ziggity on May 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM

It's like they knocked the stuffing out of him.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on May 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM

I'd say that he's too stupid to live but you know...

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on May 28, 2009 at 1:01 PM

This illustrates why shotguns are the pro-density choice.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale on May 28, 2009 at 1:12 PM

Jonah,
You're a poet and didn't know it?
Are you a Longfellow?

Posted by lark on May 28, 2009 at 1:32 PM

The guy's not stupid. He's a composer, and a little different from you and I, but not stupid. If anything, getting hit in the head and going back to sleep qualifies as pretty fucking hardcore to me.

Posted by YipYeah on May 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM

oh, good grief. that is just down the street from me as the crow flies.

Posted by scary tyler moore

on May 28, 2009 at 1:53 PM

what sort of 25 year old is in bed at 10:30?

and "leaving a note" for someone who discharged a firearm through their party wall seems just a little TOO lenient.

Posted by Max Solomon on May 28, 2009 at 2:29 PM