At about 6:30 pm Wednesday night, officers responded to a 911 call of shots fired near Rainier Avenue South and South Kenyon Street in Rainier Beach, where they found a male victim with a gunshot wound. He was treated at the scene and transported to Harborview Medical Center with non life-threatening injuries. From SeattleCrime.com:
Police at the scene say a young man in his mid-to-late teens was shot in the leg in front of an apartment building. Read more.
Update from Seattle Times (RVP News Partner):
A 16-year-old teen who was shot in the leg along Rainier Avenue South Wednesday evening told police the shot was fired accidentally by an acquaintance showing off a handgun. Read more.
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Wow! Kenyon has been a hot block the last couple months.
It’s been reported it was an accident.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010851674_webteenshot21m.html
That makes me feel better.
Hopefully the accidentally injured youth gave the names and addresses of all those involved and the serial number of the legally registered gun. That way his insurance company can pay his hospital bills quickly.
I read this excerpt from seattlecrime.com:
“The victim–who was just transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries–was apparently uncooperative when police tried to get information about the gunmen.”
Why should uncooperative people get emergency medical care since it is so $$$$?
Your kidding right ? whAt’s to stop that individual or the individuals associates from enforcing the no snitching policy
Police can’t protect all the time, being uncoperative is the real way go make sure no one comes to make him quiet.
Matteo,
You’re probably right. We need to give law enforcement and prosecutors the tools they need to make the consequences of not cooperating with them more dire that the alternatives.
Tom T
What alternatives would be more dire than getting shot?
Have you ever REALLY feared for your life? It’s a horrible feeling, can’t really function just want to lay down, been there done that.
“We need to give law enforcement and prosecutors the tools they need to make the consequences of not cooperating with them more dire that the alternatives.”
I’m assuming you weren’t trying to be funny with this statement. The fact that somebody would say this in a discussion about refusing emergency medical care to somebody as punishment for being uncooperative with the police is not only sobering, but very telling of average Americans’ attitude toward their own freedoms.
I’ve never been shot so I can’t relate to the pain. Have been shot at once. Not sure what the answer is to get cooperation but it is sorely needed to address the pr0blem. Perhaps confiscation of property associated with seized illegal weapons.
Davis-
In the hippo oath no doctor can refuse medical care to someone with a life threatening injury although the injury was not called life threatening it would be without medical care. If we were to live in the type of community Davis is suggesting human life would be placed below money which is stupid and wrong. Money has no value if there are not people to preform a function for that money, people have value whether or not there is money, money doesn’t grow crops or build houses it is not as important as a person if it was it would not be bad for me to kill you and take your money. When someone is drowning they often grap at the rescurer and can drown them does that mean they deserve to drown, if a white kid from a rich area climbs a mountain without checking the weather should we not try to save them shold they get stuck? it would cost a lot more than patching up a bullet wound? Man the soceity you are advocating for would lead to civil war and then everyone looses. Why do you hate these kids so much did the bullet go through his leg an hit your car? Even then you still seem angry, petty and apathetic to pain suffereing and death.
Good post Lou.
The “no-snitching” policy is common with the gangsters…until one of them is facing charges of his own, at which point we often can’t get them to shut up.
“Honor among thieves”…? No, not really.
In this case the individial shot likely might have to admit that due to his own clumsiness, he shot himself. He certainly would not want to report to police who the friend was who removed the gun from the scene and is holding onto it now for him, or report who removed him from the actual scene of the shooting before 911 was called (about 10 minutes later).
There was a similar case at the Safeway south of Henderson a while back where a shooting “vitim” claimed he had been shot in a drive-by. It did not take any serious degree of policework to see that what actually happened was he reached into his pocket for his gun, and accidentally shot himself.
Don’t believe the myths and hype you see and hear about people being targeted for talking to police. Most of that is promoted by Hollywood. If it were true that people who talk to police and testify against gangeters in court are hunted down and killed, they would have all erradicated eachother by now. They are law enforcement’s best source of information about eachother!
See you on the streets!
S SEATTLE COP,
I don’t particularly share your point of view on the part of your post about the no snitching policy is hyped up from hollywood
I agree that we see it most often in the media but from the teens point of view If he was shot accidentally (at night while loitering I assume) what kind of reputation would he get if he had turned in the shooter.
as some one who spends time hanging on the bloc im sure he wouldnt want a reputation like that on the street after all if hes loitering then he probably happens to know a few people who are shady
thanks for your perspective, SS Cop.
Well, in this case since it appears the shooter was most likely himself, I don’t think his reputation could really suffer beyond where it is now.
You know, every time I see a film or tv show where a guy sticks his gun in waistband of his pants… pointing right at his junk… I worry about the human race. This you man’s probably lucky he didn’t shoot off anything vital. Just think of what that would do to your rep!
oops… ‘young’ man.
need more coffee
Also in the movies when a guy fires a full clip and then sticks the gun down his pants, that’s got to sting.
Or the youtube video “Cop Shoots Himself In Classroom”. Look it up and watch it if you need a laugh today.
I saw that one, wasn’t it in Florida?
The video where the guy shoots himself in a classroom, he’s a DEA agent, not a cop. I have to give him some credit for not screaming like a little girl after he shoots himself in the foot with a .40 caliber Glock, but it’s not enough to make up for the fact that he, well, shot himself in the foot. In a classroom. In front of children. After saying he was the only one qualified to handle a firearm.
He ended up suing Uncle Sam, claiming that due to someone leaking the video, he has suffered ridicule and can’t do his job. Here’s an article, if you’re interested — http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0411061foot1.html.
The no snitch thing is just cowardice and apathy disguised as “fightin’ the power” or whatever the kids call it these days. The end result of “don’t snitch” is where we’re at right now; thugs victimizing people, knowing that the very community they’re victimizing won’t report the crime or testify against them. It’s like a domestic violence victim refusing to call the police out of a misguided sense of loyalty to the abuser or a fear of further abuse. Guess what — don’t call, nothing’s going to change. This is just the same.
The “no snitch thing” is much more widespread than that, even touching regular folks at times. Even CEO’s. Even cops.
And BTW, that video was staged.
Not to say that bullshit doesn’t have it’s place, as a teaching tool…
did the little gansta shoot his pee pee off?
Wow. This is amazingg. not in a good way…
But let me just tell you i live on kenyon and all this stuff to me is no suprise because it happens almost everyday its just as suprising as going to school.
( No OFFENSE TO EDUCATORS)
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