SEATTLE — UPDATE 1/26:
More details on this weekend’s shooting in the parking lot of Cellars nightclub in Belltown. Monday a King County Judge found probable cause to hold a 19-year-old female without bail. Nia C. Hall was in a vehicle that crashed on S. Dearborne exiting I-5 while trying to elude police. Hall had a 9mm semiautomatic tucked in her waistband according to court documents. The arresting officers could smell a gun that had been fired recently and the shell casing matched at least one from the scene. The driver of the vehicle was gone by the time police arrived. Halls is being charged with a driveby shooting.
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Kevin Lessig says a bullet came toward him as he sat inside his wife's art studio.
"Sitting in my chair here," Lessig said, gesturing to his left. "And there's a chair next to me and it landed underneath that chair."
He pointed to the hole the bullet left in a window.
"The bullet came through here, bounced off the wall and landed about 2 feet away from me," he said.
Cellphone video shows the scene just after 1 Saturday morning. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a white Camaro speed off. Seattle police were searching for the car when it was spotted taking the Dearborn exit off I-5.
Daren Norrington said he watched the vehicle crash.
"Came barreling through and just smack, right into the wall," he said.
Then the driver fled.
"Yeah, he just fell out of the window and took off!" Norrington added.
A female passenger was arrested as the alleged shooter.
In less than a week, there have been three shootings in the area.
Kevin Lessig snapped photographs of where the bullet lodged inside the apartment. He says he knows who is to blame.
"There are two or three establishments that are 100 percent of the problem," Lessig said.
Indeed Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes has tried since October to get Cellars Restaurant's liquor license yanked, but it remains in business.
Lessig faults the state Liquor Control Board.
"They don't have to take them out of business," he said, "just take back that license."
A spokeswoman for Holmes says Cellars' liquor license was suspended but for only 14 days.
The owners are appealing.
KIRO
