The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is investigating an assault involving a large firework that seriously injured a man late Monday night in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID).
SPD officers were initially called to respond to a shooting near 9th Avenue S. and S. Jackson Street before discovering a man, 23, with “significant facial injuries” and no gunshot wounds. Officers found the victim just before midnight Tuesday. No evidence of a shooting was found at the scene.
The victim was transported to Harborview Medical Center after paramedics applied first aid at the scene…