2 charged in connection with double shooting in Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborhood

A man who bought laundry detergent while video-chatting on his cell phone and a woman who was visiting from Portland with her family, including three young nieces, fell victim to the chaotic shootings on Saturday, according to King County crowded sidewalk in Seattle’s Little Saigon International District district attorneys.

The two pedestrians were targeted by a street robbery and shot in the left leg by an unknown person, the prosecutor said.

Raymond Castillo, 28, of Seattle, was charged Wednesday with first degree assault, first degree theft, attempted theft of a motor vehicle and unlawful possession of a first degree firearm, court records show. In addition to the shootings near South Jackson Street and 12th Avenue South, he is charged with stealing the wounded man’s cell phone and then attempting to wire his aunt’s car at a nearby gas station, the shipping papers say.

Castillo, who was arrested at the gas station on the 800 block of Rainier Avenue South after refusing to get out of his car for two hours, is being held on bail of $ 500,000, according to prison and court records. Castillo had previously been convicted of first-degree robbery in two cases and, according to the prosecutor, is not allowed to own firearms.

Seattle police also arrested Jasmine Lyons, 27, of Burien, who was charged Wednesday with first degree theft related to cell phone theft, the indictments read. Instead of bailing $ 50,000, she remains in jail.

Castillo and Lyons are due to be indicted on November 3rd. Neither of them seem to have lawyers to represent them yet.

At around 12:15 pm on Saturday, several people called 911 to report a shooting on the 1200 block of South Jackson Street. Police responded by learning from witnesses that a man and woman tried to steal a bottle of whiskey from an elderly man before the male suspect snatched a cell phone from another man, the shipping papers said.

That victim followed the couple, asked for his cell phone and offered $ 10 to return it, the charges read. The woman took the money and her companion held the phone out to the man, but then threw it on the floor and smashed the screen, according to the loading papers.

The male suspect then attempted to fire a stun gun at the victim’s face, but when that failed, he drew a pistol from his jacket and fired multiple shots into the crowd on the sidewalk, hitting the man and a bystander, it is said in the counts.

The wounded man hobbled to safety while the woman, who was flanked by her three nieces in the shooting, was helped away from the scene by her family members. Both were taken to Harbourview Medical Center.

Witnesses reported that the gunman and his companion ran away from the scene, and video-surveillance footage showed them walking east on Jackson and then south on Rainier to the Shell Food Mart, the charges say.

A Seattle police officer arrived at the gas station at 12:43 p.m. and spoke to an elderly woman who said she had been asked to pick up her nephew and companion who, according to the indictment, gave her money for gasoline. When the police cleared bystanders from the scene, the man and his companion got into the woman’s vehicle, even though the younger woman got out of the car and was arrested. A small stun gun was found in her possession, the prosecution said.

The man was able to start the car by hot-wiring without a key, but the car somehow became inoperable and later reportedly had to be towed. After officials repeatedly called for him to be shot, negotiators and SWAT officers were called to the scene and the man surrendered around 3 p.m., the indictment said.

Police were given permission to search the car and found a .40 caliber pistol inside.

By the end of September so far this year, 73 people had been killed in shootings in King County and a further 283 injured, numbers that, according to data provided, have already exceeded the 2020 record high for fatal and injured shootings by prosecutors earlier this year Month.