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.”)
oh please every time you cross the street you’re one text messaging teenager away from a funeral
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.
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.
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).
Wait… Charles Mudede is a journalist?
GARBAGE DAY!
Sounds like Seattleblues finally got caught.
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.
You guys realize a man was shot and killed on Monday afternoon, right?
I looked him up too. Prior charge of indecent exposure.
@5 LOL / FTW
First world problem?
Do you want a yoga mat for that stretch?
@6 – I see what you did there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE…
@6: http://www.youtube.com/user/somethingday…
I have an atomic bomb…been meaning to test to see if it still works. Everyone cool with that?
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.
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.