BURIEN, Wash. — Detectives on Monday morning told KIRO 7 they’re puzzled by a shooting in Burien that sent a man to the hospital in critical condition.
Police said the story the man gave them doesn’t entirely add up, but that they believe there’s still a shooter on the loose.
Larry Lindsey and Alicia McAlvey ran outside their apartment, at South 156th Street and First Avenue, around 4:15 a.m. and saw the man in his 20s bleeding. He was shot in his rear end, and the bullet went through his stomach.
“We heard a gunshot, then all of a sudden we heard a screen door close,” Lindsey said. “Blood was just rushing down his leg, and his boxers and everything (were) soaking wet, full of blood.”
Medics rushed the man to Harborview Medical Center.
Detectives said there was little information about what happened, and no eyewitnesses to the shooting. Police combed the apartment complex looking for evidence – a bullet casing or something to help them figure out if the victim had been shot there or somewhere else – but all they found were sporadic blood drops.
Later, word came that the man had told a medic he’d been in the park behind the apartments.
“He had been going to the bathroom. He was approached by a dark-skinned male who displayed a handgun. Then he turned to run, and that’s when he was shot,” Burien police Sgt. Katie Larson said.
But there’s still some question as to whether that’s the whole story, police said.
Investigators didn’t find any bullet casings in the park, either, and Lindsey said the time between the gunshot and when he saw the victim (at the apartments) was pretty short.
“It took me maybe like five or 10 seconds to get out here, and then he was already up on the second floor,” Lindsey said.
For now, detectives said they’re waiting to figure out where to take the investigation next.
“Hopefully our victim will be able to, as he regains consciousness this afternoon – our detectives will be able to get back in there and get some more finite, concrete details for us, because right now, we don’t have them,” Larson said.
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