No injuries were reported, but there were two driveby shootings in Lower Queen Anne last weekend, according to a police report and an eyewitness account.
The first took place between 11:30 and midnight on Friday, Sept. 24, when an unknown thug opened fire on a couple walking near Jabu's Pub at the corner of Roy St. and Second Ave. N., according to Erin Pickart, a bartender at the neighborhood bar.
Six rounds were fired, she said, adding that customers were diving for cover as one man locked the front door. The intended targets weren't hit, but a car parked in a lot across the street was, Pickart said. Broken glass from the shattered car window was still on the ground in the parking lot on Sunday afternoon.
A group of people associated with the damaged car - including one extremely tall woman -waited in Jabu's while police completed their investigation, the bartender said.
Efforts to obtain a police report or comment were unsuccessful, so it is unknown if there are any suspects. But Pickart was still a bit shaken when interviewed, saying she'd also heard unconfirmed reports that a man was shot the same night at a bar near Key Arena. "It's definitely not something you would expect in Queen Anne," she said.
Perhaps, but there was also a second driveby shooting near Second Ave. W. and W. Harrison St. shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 26, according to a police report.
The shooting involved one of four or five occupants in a 2001 Range Rover firing an AK-47 assault rifle at an older, Corolla-type vehicle filled with approximately 10 people, according to the police report, which quoted a bouncer at the Studio B all-ages club in the 300 block of Elliott Ave. W.
Witnesses also told police there was a man with a gun tucked into his waistband walking on the street during the shooting, but police efforts to find him or the two vehicles involved were unsuccessful.
The gunfire early Sunday morning took place a couple of hours after a large fight that spilled out onto Elliott from Studio B, according to a second police report. It's unknown whether the fight - which involved both males and females - was related to the driveby shooting.
But one teenage boy from South Seattle was arrested after he punched a Studio B bouncer, who wasn't hurt because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, according to the police report.
A gun-related incident also took place the weekend before, at Floyd's Place bar in the 500 block of First Ave. N., according to witness statements and a police report only recently obtained.
A man holding a handgun walked into the bar around 4 p.m. on Satur-day, Sept. 18, said Johnie Burk, a bartender at the sports bar. "I was like, holy [crap]!" Burk said.
The man with the gun tucked it into his waistband when he saw that the place was packed with people, the bartender said, adding that the gun-toting man did a slow, methodi-cal walk-through of the bar before leaving.
"In my estimation ... he definitely was planning to rob us," Burk said, adding that the suspect appeared to be high on something.
Police were called, and the man - a 34-year-old Greenwood resident - was arrested a short time later at the corner of Fifth Ave. N. and Roy St. He was in a Chevy van being driven by a second man, but he was ultimately booked for investigation of robbery because the same man had allegedly pulled off an armed robbery a short while earlier at the 7-Eleven at 15th Ave. W. and W. Dravus St.
It wasn't much of a heist. According to the police report, the man grabbed a bottle of cranberry juice, walked to the counter, opened his jacket to reveal a handgun in his waistband, and indicated he wasn't paying by waving his finger back in forth in the clerk's face before leaving the store.
The partially drunk bottle of cranberry juice was placed into evidence.
So was the man's gun, which turned out to be a "Walther BB pistol ... with clip," according to the police report.
Staff reporter Russ Zabel can be reached at rzabel@nwlink.com or 461-1309.
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