South Sound Sniper in Lacey, Washington.

[priv8ter]

I saw a quick story about this on one of the news stations out of Seattle last night. They had already rushed to call these guys the 'South Sound Snipers'.

While I don't think they deserve the term 'sniper', I do think that if they catch these guys, they should have their BB gun broken over their head. Shooting out the windows of a moving veihicle is a great way to cause an accident, which could turn a 'Hey, Watch this' prank into a homicide charge.

Dummies.

greg

Windows shot out of 3 cars
Pellets or BBs fired at moving vehicles

SCOTT GUTIERREZ THE OLYMPIAN


OLYMPIA -- Frankie Chavez was on her way to an office Christmas party when she heard a bang and her passenger-side window shattered all over her husband.


Her husband felt something strike his collar and assumed he'd been shot. Chavez immediately pulled her 1998 Chevrolet Blazer off the road and checked her husband, Agustine, up and down to make sure he wasn't bleeding.
Fortunately, he wasn't hit by a bullet. But Chavez was still angry to learn that someone shot at her window with a pellet or BB gun, putting her in jeopardy and leaving her with an extra expense during the holidays.

"That's a big hunk of money I have to pull out of nowhere," the Yelm resident said. "It not only makes me mad that it happened, but just the fact that somebody would do that to somebody else."

Others shot at

Thurston County sheriff's investigators were searching Friday for the culprit who shot at three driver's-side windows Thursday along the 7700 block of Martin Way East. The shootings happened in rapid succession about 6:30 p.m.

No one was injured, although it was lucky the stunt didn't cause an accident or seriously hurt someone, sheriff's Capt. Dan Kimball said.

"They might have thought this was a prank, but it could have had tragic consequences," Kimball said.

Other vehicles hit by pellets included a 1996 Dodge Caravan and a 1997 Toyota Camry. A witness helped investigators determine that the sniper took aim from woods on the north side of the street.

Investigators think the shots probably were fired by juveniles, and they hope someone will come forward, he said.

"If it was kids, they're probably bragging about it or talking about it," he said.

Costly repairs

In the meantime, Chavez has to fork over $350, which was money intended for Christmas presents, to cover the repairs. She'll be without her Blazer until she can get it into the shop Monday.

Her husband's wool-lined Levi's denim jacket probably prevented him from being more seriously hurt.

"Had that been a real bullet, it would have killed him," she said.

They called 9-1-1 and the dispatcher told them about the other vehicles, Chavez said. They waited for a deputy to arrive, which made them about 90 minutes late for their Christmas party, she said.

"It was enough to damper anybody's evening," she said.

 

[Waffen]

Who ever is doing this is a moron. I hope they get caught, not nessissairyly by the cops, but at least by their parrents. This seems like one of the cases where it takes a little tough love from daddy.

 

[George S.]

They are really lucky that someone didn't stop and decide to shoot back with a real gun. That part of Martin Way is not the best place to be around after dark. But there are no houses in that particular area, just small shops and business parks and the small stands of trees. Sounds as though the kids (oops, idiots ) were hiding and had a car nearby.

Hopefully they will get caught so we won't have to read about them being shot by return fire.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Never show up for a gun fight with an air pistol.

 

[Tom Servo]

I'll try to dig it up, but a few weeks ago in Georgia, an archer was practicing on his front lawn when a few teenagers drove by. They shouted at him and one of them pointed a paintball gun out the window. The archer reacted on reflex, and the "shooter" died of an arrow through the neck.

Hey, this is Georgia. No charges were even cosidered against the archer, and I only heard about it as an aside on afternoon talk-radio. The archer was roundly praised for his marksmanship

Of course, let's call the case that started this thread a "sniper" case, just so we can dredge up memories of the DC sniper deal and point out how bad guns are...jeez.

 

[Chipperman]

"The archer was roundly praised for his marksmanship "

Good shot, No unecessary suffering.
Sometimes I think I need to move further South. Can't deal with the hot weather though.

 

[Langenator]

It's been a while since I've been home...is the 7700 block in the area between I-5 and Marvin?

 

[erik the bold]

They waited for a deputy to arrive, which made them about 90 minutes late for their Christmas party

They had to wait over an hour for the sheriff's department?? I always thought that they could provide instantaneous response for my protection!

 

[George S.]

Langenator, the 7700 block is about halfway between the Martin Way/Marvin Road intersection and Tanglewilde.

As far as the Thurston County Sheriff deputies response time, that area only has one ot two deputies on the road in the early evening and they have a fairly large patrol area. There is a sub-station about 3 blocks away but is not staffed in the evening. The way I read the article was that the deputies were not that late in responding, but the investigation took some time. Usually, TCSO does a pretty good job in responding. And the City of Lacey has officers in the area. Guess if it was a real pistol being fired, the place would have been surrounded pretty quickly.

 

[c_yeager]

They had to wait over an hour for the sheriff's department??

It seems that since they were 90 minutes late for the party that the entire PROCESS took no more than 90 minutes from start to finish. It appears that the 90 minutes included enough time to talk to the media as well as law enforcement.