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.

Jonah Spangenthal-Lee: Proving you wrong since 1983.

14 replies on “Man Shot in Head Goes Back to Bed”

  6. 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.

  8. 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.

  11. @8

    i’m 25 and in bed at 9:45 or 10:00pm most nights. because i have to get up at 5:00am to got to work, not because I like to.

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