The following was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.
Someone, who perhaps thought Renton Hill would be a good place to test a gun, fired off at least 16 rounds at about 1:30 a.m. June 27, including 12 that shot up a two-story house.
No one was injured by the gunfire.
A witness, who was waiting on the street for a friend to come home, told officers two men pulled up in a green sedan. The driver got out; the witness believed he shot into the air because “this would be a good place to test a gun.” He only described the shooter as “stocky.”
A bullet pierced the siding and traveled into an upstairs bathroom, where it ruptured a pipe. Water gushed out, but officers shut off the water at the street.
Five bullets entered a bedroom on the first floor; one lodged in a far wall and four continued through.
Several rounds went through the siding and an interior wall next to a stairway and into a bathroom or passed through into the living room. Others embedded in an interior wall next to the front door.
Officers recovered the 9 mm Lugar shell casings on South Third Street and took a swab of almost-dry spit in the middle of them for DNA testing. It’s believed the spit belonged to one of the suspects.
Bullet fragments and an empty 16-ounce can of MGD beer were collected. A resident inside the house doesn’t know why anyone would shoot at her house or her son.
Damage was estimated at about $2,000.
SUSPECT THREATENS DRIVER: The driver of a delivery truck was threatened with a knife and a gun June 28 after she told the assailant to get away from her truck.
The victim, a 26-year-old Renton woman, was parked outside a laundromat on Northeast Sunset Boulevard at about 11:30 p.m. She was inside doing laundry but returned to her truck.
The suspect, who was later identified as a homeless sex offender, became angry, which scared the victim. He rode off on a bike, then returned, displaying a black handgun and a large knife, which he unsheathed.
He then asked her, “Which one do you want?”
He then ran off and jumped on his bike. The victim followed but lost sight of him near Highlands Elementary School. Officers now had a suspect in a residential neighborhood and near a school who had just threatened a woman.
Officers continued to search for the suspect and learned his identity. He eventually was taken into custody, after an officer spotted him several times.
He denied having a gun but finally admitted to hiding a fixed-blade knife in the bushes at Highlands Elementary, which officers found.
He was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of second-degree assault and on a warrant for failing to register as a sex offender.
SHOTS FIRED: Someone driving slowly on 124th Avenue Southeast fired two shots at a man June 22 who was just returning from a drug store.
The man wasn’t hit, but the gunfire at about 9:40 p.m. scared him and a friend inside the house who thought they were fireworks until she was told otherwise. The car was close enough for the man to see the muzzle flash.
The friend’s son lives in the house, too, and she doesn’t want the man there if that’s the kind of attention he’s going to attract. He doesn’t know anyone who would want to shoot at him.
Two .45-caliber casings were found but there were no apparent bullet holes in the house or to vehicles.
