Two injured in recent shootings

From staff reports

Two men were injured in Federal Way apartment shootings only five days apart.

Federal Way police responded to the View at the Lake Apartments in the 30600 block of Pacific Highway South at 11 a.m. Monday following reports of a shooting. A 37-year-old man told police a bullet was shot into his apartment, striking a mirror. A victim was injured by the broken glass, suffering minor cuts, but no one was hit.

Police learned a 42-year-old Federal Way man was sitting in his friend’s pickup truck in front of the first man’s apartment when he was shot at from behind. Police believe he was the intended victim of the shooter.

Cathy Schrock, a spokeswoman for the Federal Way Police Department, said the man in the vehicle didn’t see who shot at him, nor did he see the suspect’s vehicle.

Days earlier, a 32-year-old man was shot in the arm. Police received calls of the shooting at approximately 1 a.m., Dec. 22, and rushed to Kitts Corner Apartments, in the 1200 block of South 336th Street.

The victim, who is from Auburn, said he and a woman were sitting in a parked vehicle inside the apartment complex when two vehicles pulled up behind them.

The man got out of the vehicle, but the suspect also got out, and the victim “jumped back into the vehicle.”

The suspect started shooting, Schrock said.

The man was taken to St. Francis Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Anyone with information regarding these shootings is encouraged to submit tips at www.safecityfw.com.