About 5 p.m., Seattle police received a call from a man who heard five or six shots near the Starbucks at 23rd Avenue South and South Jackson Street. Police spokeswoman Renee Witt said another caller told them there were some gang members shooting at a car in the Walgreens parking lot."We got varying descriptions of suspects," she said. "We also got information that there were six to seven males running behind Walgreens. But we got no solid descriptions of suspects."Police were looking for a large silver vehicle that might have been involved, but were not sure if that vehicle belonged to a suspect or possible victim.No injuries were reported. A pillar at the bank was the only property damaged.Police sources say that area is known for illegal gun sales.In May of last year, an 18-year-old man was wounded in a gang-related gunfight in the area. He ran into the Bank of America at 23rd and Jackson, saying he'd been shot, stunning customers and employees who called police.
''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an...
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