We now have a third homicide in the Emerald City this year. The King County medical examiner has identified the victim as 28-year-old Corey Baron.
He died from his injuries last Friday, five days after he was shot in the 1900 block of East Jefferson Street . Baron was struck at the intersection but was able to drive several feet before his car came to rest.
Connor Putnal remembers January 28 as a Sunday so warm he had his back windows open even at 9:15 that night.
“And I heard five, what sounded to be gunshots you know, pretty quick in a row there,” Putnal said. “And so I texted my friend who lives next door and he was out of town at the time. But it was quite concerning.”
Soon, Seattle police converged on East Jefferson Street. A driver had been shot. His passengers said they initially thought he had hit a rock.
“Their car kind of scraped my roommate’s car as it came to a stop in front of our house,” said Natalie Lyons-Cohen.
She wasn’t home when the shooting happened but her roommate was.