SEATTLE — Detectives are investigating after a man was shot and robbed early Friday morning in the University District.
Emergency dispatchers received a call at 3:41 a.m. reporting some kind of disturbance and the sound of a gunshot in the 4000 block of Eighth Avenue Northeast.
Arriving officers found a man with gunshot wounds in both legs.
According to the victim, he had pulled up to a friend’s house on a motorcycle when two men on another motorcycle pulled up next to him and demanded his backpack.
Medics took the 36-year-old victim to Harborview Medical Center.
They then attacked him, knocked him off his bike, and shot him before stealing his motorcycle and leaving the scene, Seattle police said.
A stolen motorcycle was recovered at the scene.