South Seattle road rage ends with shot fired

A man who was trying to get a driver to slow down in his neighbor was shot at by the driver in a confrontation Monday morning.

Joseph Frias and Janice Wolf both saw the altercation between two men on the side of the road in the 8500 block of South 115^th Place Monday morning.

"The gentleman asked him, 'Would you not speed?  Children are here,'" Frias told KIRO 7.  "The guy pulled out a pistol and tried to shoot him."

According to the King County Sheriff's Office, the driver of a Black Honda sped down 85^th Avenue South and through a stop sign. A man leaving for work yelled, "Slow Down," at the driver.

The Honda driver shouted an obscenity, so the second man chased after him, hoping to get a license plate to give police. During a multi-block pursuit through the Skyway neighborhood, the Honda driver hit a stop sign, tried to drive the homeowner off the road and attempted to back into his vehicle. 

The two drivers then stopped at a vacant lot in front of Wolf's home on South 115^th Place.
Wolf said she didn't see a weapon but heard a loud pop.She said people speed on her street all the time. 

"It makes me think, because sometimes, I have a big mouth," she told KIRO 7. 

Wolf said she'll now think twice before shouting at anyone to slow down.

Investigators with the King County Sheriff's Office found the black Honda but not the driver.

"I realize people get frustrated when somebody's speeding up and down the street," Sgt. Cindi West said on Friday. "Really, the wrong thing to do is get in your car and follow the vehicle.  In this day and age, with people being crazy and having guns, the last thing you need is to follow somebody and get shot and killed over a stop sign."

West said it's better to just call 911.

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