Suspected arrested for drive-by shooting on SR-900 in King County, WA

The Brief

  • Washington State Patrol detectives arrested 29-year-old Anthony K. Robino Jr. on Aug. 7 in connection with a July 22 road-rage drive-by shooting on SR-900 between Renton and Issaquah.
  • The victim reported that a driver in a light-colored vehicle fired a shot that shattered his back window after tailgating him near May Valley Road, though the victim was uninjured.
  • Investigators tracked the suspect vehicle to his workplace, took him into custody during a traffic stop, and recovered a 9mm handgun from his center console during a subsequent search warrant.

KING COUNTY, Wash. Police arrested a drive-by shooting suspect nearly two weeks after an incident on SR-900 between Renton and Issaquah.

The backstory:

According to the Washington State Patrol (WSP), at about 5 a.m. on July 22, troopers received a 911 call from a victim saying that they had just been shot at by a driver on SR-900 near May Valley Road. The victim said they were not injured and pulled over into the May Valley Alliance Church parking lot until troopers arrived.

Troopers saw the back window shattered and found a bullet fragment lodged in the headrest of the passenger seat. Troopers also went to the area where the shooting occurred and found a bullet casing.

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