SEATTLE — A man was taken to the hospital after he was shot in the arm near a homeless camp in the Chinatown-International District Monday morning.
Emergency dispatchers started receiving reports of gunshots near the I-5 overpass at South Jackson Street at 5:14 a.m.
Shortly after, a caller at Eighth Avenue South and South King Street reported he was with a man who had been shot in the arm.
Police officers arrived and applied a tourniquet to the victim’s arm. Seattle Fire Department Medics arrived soon after and took the man to Harborview Medical Center.
Police followed a blood trail left by the victim to find the shooting scene just north of the 900 block of South Jackson Street, on a trail into a homeless camp along the easternmost lanes of the I-5 northbound collector-distributor lanes.
Police found several shell casings at the scene and on the shoulder of the highway.
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