Kent Police are looking for a man who reportedly shot and critically injured a 30-year-old Bothell man behind the Kent YMCA.<\/p>\n
Officers were dispatched at about 6:37 p.m. Thursday, June 15 to the 10800 block of South 248th Street in response to a 911 call of a shooting, according to a Kent Police statement.<\/p>\n
Officers were advised that a man had been shot behind the YMCA and the shooter was seen fleeing northbound into a neighborhood. The first two officers to arrive found the man on a Morrill Meadows Park bench with a gunshot wound to his head, according to police.<\/p>\n
Officers began CPR and continued until medics arrived. Paramedics transported the man to a local hospital in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. As of Friday morning, June 16, the man was on life support, according to police.<\/p>\n
Multiple officers flooded into the area to search for the suspected shooter. A Kent K-9 team tracked through the nearby neighborhood and Washington State Patrol assisted in the search with its air support unit.<\/p>\n
“Despite a prolonged and intense effort, the suspect was not located,” according to police.<\/p>\n
The suspect is described by witnesses as a tall, skinny Black male in his 20s, wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, according to police.<\/p>\n
Just prior to the shooting, the Bothell man was sitting on a bench and was approached by the suspect. Witnesses saw a heated argument, then a struggle and then saw the suspect shoot the Bothell man in the head, according to police.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call 911, call the Kent Police tip line at 253-856-5808 or email KPDTipLine@kentwa.gov.<\/p>\n
Rash of shootings<\/strong><\/p>\n This marks the fourth shooting over the past 12 days in Kent that has killed or injured someone:<\/p>\n • June 13: Abubakar Ahmed, 19, of Tukwila, fatally shot inside the AMC Theatre at the Kent Station shopping center. No arrest has been made. Police said it was not a random shooting.<\/p>\n • June 12: An 8-year-old Auburn boy shot and injured while riding in his mother’s car near 104th Avenue SE and SE 236th Street. No arrest has been made.<\/p>\n • June 4: Baba Jawara, 18, of Kent, fatally shot in the 11300 block of SE Kent-Kangley Road. No arrest has been made. Police said it was not a random shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Incident occurred June 15 on park bench; 4th Kent shooting in 12 days that killed or injured someone <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":63131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63130"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}