A spat of road rage turned violently awry in the Rainier View neighborhood, where a man was shot following a heated vehicular confrontation, according to Seattle police. The incident unraveled shortly before the witching hour of the commute, at 6:30 p.m., when officers were summoned to the 5200 block of South Avon Street.
Upon arrival, found was a 34-year-old male, injured from a gunshot wound to the shoulder, as per SPD Blotter. The Seattle Fire Department rendered on-site medical assistance before whisking the victim away to Harborview Medical Center. His condition was soberingly pegged at stable, yet serious.
Before the bullet bore into flesh, it was a tale of two cars—one, the victim's, and the other a shadowy black BMW harboring two suspects. The BMW, with sudden stops on a whim, teased and taunted before the victim swung past. The chase didn’t end when the man's car pulled over; the BMW occupants persisted, squeezing off a fatal shot—one that blasted through metal and into human vulnerability.
Left haunted by the echo of that gunshot, the black BMW melted away into the city's veins, with its occupants remaining at large, agents of chaos unanchored and unfound. The Gun Violence Reduction Unit detectives have since taken up the mantle, toiling to weave together the threads of motive and malice left in violence's wake.
