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Teen hospitalized after drive-by shooting in Rainier Valley

By Seattle Times staff

A 17-year-old boy was in critical condition this morning at Harborview Medical Center after being shot in a drive-by attack in the Rainier Valley last night.
Seattle police said that shots came from two men in a silver Chevrolet Caprice shortly after 10:30 p.m. in the 7400 block of Rainier Avenue South. The assailants were still at large this morning, a police spokeswoman said.

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This happened right in front of our apartment complex. S heard the shots, and asked if i heard anything, but i hadn't (i need to clean my ears - S has excellent hearing). On our way to bed later, we saw police lights outside our kitchen window and sure enough, there was a drive-by. It was eerie, you'd think with something like this there'd be people all around and news cameras, and police asking people to step back, etc.... Nothing like that - it was quite...very quite in the neighborhood. Police blocked off the street and were milling around quietly talking. S and I talked to the lady who had called the police as we asked what happened. Another guy told us who it was, there was a group of them, but only one got shot...S knew someone in the group, but i don't think he was the victim. We loitered for a few more minutes and then went back to the flat...another day in the neighborhood? I don't know - it was spooky and yet nobody seemed very alarmed by what was going on...maybe i'll get used to it too...

...hopefully not.

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