Two My Ballard readers have emailed us about incident on 15th Ave. near 64th on Tuesday evening. “A man facing north towards Corry’s Fine Dry Cleaners fired 3 random shots while standing near the garages of Walt Auto Care,” writes Paul, who lives nearby. “One shot hit a white Subaru in the parking lot of Corry’s.” Julia confirms the story, saying that her friend was walking out of the Corry’s when the shots were fired. “Luckily the guy was a bad shot,” she writes. They say the man was arrested without incident. We’re making a few calls to gather more info, which we’ll post as soon as we get it.
Update: Well, we’re able to confirm only the most basic details from the police report, which was released several days after the shooting. A 38-year-old man who lives in the area, described as needing “mental health care,” was arrested in the shooting. Just as our tipsters say, one of the bullets struck a parked car. As for any more details, a large portion of the police report is blacked out.
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Shots fired on 15th Ave.
May 14th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Tags: Ballard
8 responses so far ↓
1 Suthii // May 15, 2008 at 9:17 am
Wow, if this was a posting about a new condo in Ballard they’d be 20 posts by midday whining about yuppies.
But gang bangers shooting off guns near a high school and nada.
2 Joe // May 15, 2008 at 11:15 am
Wow, I live a block away but didn’t hear a thing!
3 Elttaes // May 15, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Well we can only hope it will keep the damn HS kids out for awhile.
4 L. // May 15, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Do you have any more info on this yet? We just moved to the neighborhood, so this is a little freaky.
5 Geeky Swedes // May 15, 2008 at 2:49 pm
We’ve made several calls to SPD who are helping us track down the information. As soon as we know more we’ll post it. It’s taking a little longer than we were anticipating (sorry).
6 Bill // May 17, 2008 at 12:31 pm
38-year-old gang bangers (sic)?
7 Suthii // May 17, 2008 at 9:13 pm
“38-year-old gang bangers (sic)?”
Well Bill, I guess you can focus on your #1 nemesis in Ballard: condos and yuppies.
8 Bill // May 18, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Suthii, I think you have me mistaken for someone else.
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