UPDATE: Just heard from the prosecutor’s office that decision on charges is still pending and the ‘no charge’ notes in the booking report don’t mean the assault and the mischief charges won’t be pursued. More shortly.
Continue to learn more about the Howell airgun shooting suspect and the case against him. Appears that the most serious charges against the alleged shooter have been dropped.
Sorry to roll this info out all mystery style but it truly is coming to me piece by piece. We already told you the alleged shooter is a 21-year-old man booked on a variety of charges including assault and malicious mischief. Now thanks to some crowd-sourced sleuthing, I have a name to work with but am not printing it here until I confirm I’ve got the right guy.
It appears the suspect is a Seattle Central student and was also hit with a few lesser charges — those charges are, for now, sticking. The more serious charges of assault and mischief have apparently been dropped.
Just to make sure I’m clear, you can shoot people on Capitol Hill and not go to jail, but if you have an antiwar protest, they’ll send the cops out in droves to bully you? Wow, and the city of Seattle is making the case that we need MORE cops on the streets?
See my note above. Jail booking entry of “Investigation release no charge” does not mean what I thought it meant, prosecutors office said. They have until Monday to decide on charges.