SEATTLE — Seattle police investigators said a teenage girl was shot in the eye with a pellet gun round as she and other students waited at a bus stop.
On Jan. 14, Garfield High School students had just been let out of school and several were standing at a bus shelter across the street.
While they were waiting for the bus, a dark compact car drove by and a passenger fired multiple pellet gun rounds at the students, who ducked for cover.
The car then sped up and continued south on 23rd Avenue South.
“A 14-year-old victim was struck in the eye by one of the pellets and immediately suffered vision loss,” a Seattle Police Department significant incident report said.
Firefighters treated the girl at the scene and recommended that she be taken to the hospital in an ambulance. She was taken to a hospital by her parents shortly after.
Officers searched the area for the car, but did not find it.
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