SEATTLE — Seattle police are asking for the public’s help in finding a woman they say shot a man at a convenience store in the Rainier Valley on April 7.
Police said the woman has been described as white or Hispanic, 20 to 30 years old, with black hair. She was last seen wearing a black jacket, black pants and white shoes.
Dontae Myrick was at the convenience store when he said the woman pulled out a gun and tried to rob the store. He tried to stop the woman and get the gun away from her but she shot him.
“It was an immediate burn, I smelled gun smoke, the bullet went inside and I could tell it did damage,” Myrick said. “I was just praying that she wouldn’t fire again, so I just tried to roll out of the situation, get out of there.”
The woman ran off after the shooting and police still haven’t found her. Luckily, Myrick’s nephew, Jermaine Hawkins, recorded everything on his cell phone.
“She kept going like this and so for me, like, watching people and knowing what people are going to do, it looks like you got something,” Hawkins said. Hawkins drove his uncle to Harborview Medical Center immediately after the woman shot Myrick.
“What’s going through my mind is, I have to get him to the hospital as soon as possible. I just didn’t know if he was going to make it or not,” Hawkins said.
Myrick has been recovering there for more than two weeks.
“It was just a blessing to have him there, just to be there for me and the support to be able to get me here,” Myrick said.
Myrick does have a GoFundMe set up to help pay for medical costs, which you can donate to here.
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