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Gang Unit Investigating Another Shooting After Man Shows Up At Hospital With Gunshot Wound

By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee July 30, 2010

Three days after gang detectives were called to Harborview after a man showed up with a gunshot wound to the chest, police were again called to the hospital to investigate another possible gang-related shooting.


In this latest incident, a police report says a man walked into Harborview at about 1:45am on July 27th with a gunshot wound to the leg.


The man told police he'd gone into the woods at 29th and E Cherry to smoke some weed, and walked back through an alley at 25th and Cherry, when he heard one or two gunshots coming from behind him.


The man told police he felt a sharp pain in his right leg, but did not realize he'd been shot until he took a step, and immediately fell to the ground.


The man crawled through the alley and eventually got to his feet. He told police he then flagged down a motorist who drove him to the hospital.


The man "denied any gang affiliation and stated he did not know of anyone who would have a grudge against him," the report says, but he could not provide police with any identifying information for the driver or vehicle and was, according to police, "uncooperative."


Police weren't able to find a crime scene and 25th and Cherry, but the police report notes there was also a shooting in South Seattle the same night.


Back at the hospital, a witness at the hospital told officers she saw a car drive up, drop the man off, and flee at a "high rate of speed."


According to the report, the suspects in the earlier shooting were driving a vehicle similar to the one which a witness had seen at the hospital.

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