Deputies said the officer was not injured after a car rammed a police vehicle and drove away.
BOTHELL, Wash. — A Bothell police officer fired multiple rounds at a car outside a 7-Eleven early Tuesday after someone inside pointed a weapon at the officer, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
The officer was not injured.
The sheriff’s office said the incident began after midnight when a Bothell officer saw a car make an illegal U-turn and pull into the 7-Eleven parking lot. The driver got out and ran away, and a passenger moved into the driver’s seat, according to investigators.
Someone inside the car then displayed a weapon and “pointed it at the officer,” police said. Officials said there were multiple people inside the car and could not say whether the person with the weapon was the same person who had moved into the driver’s seat.
The officer fired multiple rounds at the car. The person in the driver’s seat then put the car in reverse, rammed a police vehicle and drove away, according to the sheriff’s office.
Officials could not say whether anyone inside the car fired a gun.
A 19-year-old later showed up at a hospital in Burien and was taken to Harborview. The sheriff’s office confirmed the person was a suspect involved in the incident.
Investigators later found the empty car involved in the shooting in Burien, though officials said it was not at the hospital. Police were at that scene Tuesday.
The sheriff’s office said three to four people were in the car. The original driver who ran away and the other suspects who were inside the car remained outstanding Tuesday.
No 7-Eleven employees were involved or injured, according to the sheriff’s office.
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