Drive-By Shooting Leaves 2 Wounded in Renton

Renton, WA: On Saturday, Sept.17 at approximately 9:53 p.m., dispatchers received calls for multiple victims from a drive-by shooting off Burnett Avenue and 35th Street near Kennydale Beach Park in the city of Renton.

Renton Police Department reported in a press release that arriving officers found two injured males in a parking lot above Lake Washington Boulevard. The victims, 18 and 16 years of age, had suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Officers provided initial care, and both were transported to area hospitals and are expected to recover.

Police said in the release that the two males were among a small group that had gathered in the lot, and reported that the passenger in a silver car driving by on adjacent Burnett Avenue North had fired about five shots at them from inside the car.

It is unknown what motivated the shooting, and there was no description of the shooter or identifying information about the car, according to RPD.

Police are asking anyone with information regarding this case to please call 911 or email our Crime Tips Hotline at crimetips@rentonwa.gov and reference case #22-9617.

Steve Hickey, Video Journalist / KNN