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Seattle man shoots carjacking suspects in self-defense
Seattle police are investigating a carjacking attempt where a man shot two suspects, resulting in serious injuries to both.
Author: Adel Toay
SEATTLE — Seattle police are investigating after a man shot two suspects attempting to carjack him early Sunday morning.Around 3:30 a.m., officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 2200 block of 1st Avenue, according to the Seattle Police Department.
Arriving officers reportedly found one suspect, 20 to 30 years old, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and took him into custody. Officers also detained the victim, a 24-year-old licensed gun owner, for questioning and recovered his firearm.
Firefighters and medics provided aid to the injured suspect, who was taken to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition.
Investigators determined the victim had parked his sports car on 1st Avenue when a white sedan with four masked occupants pulled up. After a brief exchange, two men armed with guns tried to steal the car. The victim, fearing for his safety, fired multiple rounds, striking one of the suspects.
The other suspects fled the scene before police arrived.
A short time later, a white sedan dropped off a second suspect, 20, at Harborview, also suffering from gunshot wounds. Police said the vehicle and its remaining occupants fled before officers got there. The second suspect is also in serious condition.
Detectives processed the scene, collected evidence, and interviewed witnesses. Police said the victim was taken to Seattle Police Headquarters to be interviewed by detectives and later released.
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King 5
Spent way too much time in Seattle working the midnight-to-eight shift in Boeing system development labs. I left nothing there I need.
We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
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One of the bluest of the blue areas. No thanks. Not interested in visiting there ever again.
Shot a couple of those revolvers. Rough as a cob but decently accurate. Remember, Ruger’s first revolver was the Single Six.
If you want a nice one, get the Single Six. .22LR/.22Mag
If you want a utilitarian can blaster, get the Ruger Wrangler. .22LR or .22LR/Mag
The Heritage is serviceable. But definitely 3rd place on my list.
If you want smaller, look into a Ruger Bearcat .22LR
If you want -tiny-, North American Arms makes a 5 shot mini single action that is indeed tiny, and can be sized from .22Short to 22LR to .22Mag. Grip is like a large acorn. All sorts of variants.
That new 10 shot Ruger .22 revolver looks very solid. But they are very hard to find for sale. I have only seen one on GunBroker in many months. I have a Colt .22 with the spare .22mag cylinder. A very nice piece.
Had the Ruger Single Six in .22LR.
Fun gun to shoot and play gunslinger with.
You could fan fire it all day long.
I was never impressed by their fit & finish quality (it wasn’t really there wherewith to be impressed).
I prefer the Ruger Single-Sixs or the (1950’s) Colt’s
Blue States…
When does the victim get his pistol returned????
Likely never, unless he gets a friendly judge to order it. In addition, even if they don’t charge him with ADW, he will likely be sued civilly by at least one of his attackers. It is Seattle, afer all.
Destroy it and given him a check.
for 10% of its worth
However, compared to the cost of being assaulted / killed losing the pistol would be a reasonable write-off.
Had a friend 40-ish years ago with a FTL who had a full-auto AR. Got stopped by some small town LEOs who “impounded” it. When he got a judge to finally force them to give it back, they’d burned the barrel out in it.
He went back to the judge and they had to give him a brand new full-auto AR.
God bless Texas!