At approximately 11:30 p.m. last night, Friday, March 19, officers patrolling at Broad St. and Thomas heard three gunshots fired from a nearby club, according to the SPD blotter.
Club security provided a description of two suspects and told police that “two groups of what appeared to be rival gang members (one group in red, the other in blue) were engaged in a verbal altercation.” From the blotter:
Someone from the group on the north side of the street reportedly fired one shot, and someone from the group on the south side fired two in return. There was no indication that anyone was hit by any of the rounds. According to security, neither group had been in the club or in line to get in.
One of the suspects was described to police as a black male, 6’5″ and 300 lbs. Gang Unit Detects were able to locate this suspect among a larger group at 5th Ave and Denny, where they were detained. There detectives recovered a stolen semi-automatic handgun from a 16-year-old male, who was taken into custody and booked into Youth Services Center for Investigation of Violation of Uniform Firearms Act. The others in the group were identified by police and released at the scene.