A car sped into Seattle protesters on Sunday evening in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, just before 9 p.m.
The driver of the car shot a 27-year-old man in the shoulder. It is unclear if the shooting occurred while the car was in motion, or after the driver jumped out of the vehicle. Video footage shows the protester launching himself into the speeding vehicle to slow the car.
The man who was shot gave his name as Daniel, and was transported to Harborview Medical Center where he is in satisfactory condition.
“My whole thing was to protect those people,” Daniel told Alex Garland, a photographer. Garland posted a video of a brief interview with Daniel to Twitter.
The driver, who appeared to be in his 30s, and wearing a black hoodie with an American flag on the back. He got out of the car brandishing a weapon. Witnesses believed it was a Taser gun, which stuns people with electric nodes, but Seattle police said on Twitter that it was a gun.
The driver is now in custody, according to Seattle Police. The gun has been recovered.
The incident took place at Pike and 11th.
Ryan Teed, a medic, described seeing the driver step out of the car, holding a weapon.
“He waved it, pointed it at everyone, myself included, ran into the crowd,” Teed said. Teed believed the weapon was a Taser.
“It looked like the crowd sorta got him, and turned him over to the police. There was an injury on the ground here. It looked to me like he was hit by a car. Right shoulder injury. Medics surrounded that guy, treated him, and then we marched him, clearing the street, to the next intersection.
“We got there just as an ambulance was pulling in, and he got in with his fist in the air.
“He was okay.”
Garland, the photographer, took to Twitter to describe what took place: “With the help of other medics I got a tourniquet on his arm. Street medics were on the spot with gauze and pressure.”
Daniel was transported to Harborview by Seattle Fire.
This is a developing story.
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