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Friday, January 13, 2012

Crime / Two-Block Radius Last Night's Shots Fired on Capitol Hill

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:38 PM

At 11 p.m. Thursday, police began receiving reports of a man walking near 12th Avenue East and East Harrison Street while firing a pistol at buildings, the ground and the sky, a police spokesman said in a statement.

According to police, the man, who’d continued his stroll into the 500 block of 13th Avenue East, reloaded his .38-caliber revolver and kept shooting indiscriminately.

Patrol officers found the man near 15th Avenue East and East Mercer Street and arrested him. He allegedly admitted to the shootings and told police he just wanted to see if his gun “still worked.”

I heard these random shots last night—from my living room. I listened, they stopped, and I forgot all about them, not thinking that my block (and my living room) was just one stray bullet away from a funeral.

Now I join Charles Mudede in the journalist-who-was-next-to-a-crime-and-did-nothing-about-it club.

(I know, I know—First-World problems. As a friend in Cambodia just wrote me when I told him about this: "There are only land mines in Cambodia.")

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oh please every time you cross the street you're one text messaging teenager away from a funeral

Posted by Swearengen on January 13, 2012 at 5:42 PM

Well, I, for one, feel exactly the same way about crossing a street as I do about sitting in my living room while someone is firing bullets at my house.

Posted by maddogm13 on January 13, 2012 at 5:45 PM

Unless you saw this guy shooting his gun with your own eyes, you're not down there with Charles.

That stupid fuck is lucky he didn't hit anyone.

Posted by Matt from Denver on January 13, 2012 at 5:47 PM

Why didn't he just fire it on New Year's Eve?

That's how they do it in Detroit and New Orleans (also on the 4th of July).

Posted by Hyzenthlayk9

on January 13, 2012 at 5:58 PM

Wait... Charles Mudede is a journalist?

Posted by catsnbanjos on January 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM

GARBAGE DAY!

Posted by Zebes

on January 13, 2012 at 6:29 PM

Sounds like Seattleblues finally got caught.

Posted by TVDinner

on January 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM

12th avenue east and east harrison is my intersection. i just about lost my socks when i read this earlier today.

no, tvdinner, it's not seattleblues, because i looked this schmuck up on the KC jail website. i'd reveal his name, but he hasn't been charged with a crime yet.

Posted by scary tyler moore

on January 13, 2012 at 6:52 PM

You guys realize a man was shot and killed on Monday afternoon, right?

Posted by jackie treehorn on January 13, 2012 at 7:05 PM

I looked him up too. Prior charge of indecent exposure.

Posted by Keister Button on January 13, 2012 at 7:21 PM

@5 LOL / FTW

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on January 13, 2012 at 8:37 PM

First world problem?

Do you want a yoga mat for that stretch?

Posted by I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Does on January 13, 2012 at 10:28 PM

@6 - I see what you did there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE…

Posted by ChadK on January 13, 2012 at 11:02 PM

@6: http://www.youtube.com/user/somethingday…

Posted by venomlash on January 14, 2012 at 11:30 AM

I have an atomic bomb...been meaning to test to see if it still works. Everyone cool with that?

Posted by Last of the Time Lords on January 14, 2012 at 1:17 PM

Gunshots outside seem to be more of a 3rd world problem

@15
It is all good with me Doctor, as long as you test it in Tacoma.

Posted by Cascadian Bacon on January 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM

Also Brendan, don't compare yourself to Charles, I know that in life sometimes we can all feel down, but you are better than that. We are all better than that.

Posted by Cascadian Bacon on January 14, 2012 at 5:01 PM