{"id":32305,"date":"2015-12-09T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/seattle-police-release-video-of-car-chase-shootout\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:07:16","slug":"seattle-police-release-video-of-car-chase-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/seattle-police-release-video-of-car-chase-shootout\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle police release video of car chase, shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SEATTLE<\/strong> \u2014 Seattle police have released dash-cam videos showing a carjacker speeding the wrong way up a one-way street, firing at a pursuing patrol car and finally spinning out his stolen, wrecked Camaro in a cloud of smoke as officers shot and killed him.<\/p>\n<p>No bystanders or police suffered significant injuries in the events Sunday afternoon, which began when workers at a Pike Place Market coffee shop called 911 to report there was a man with a gun inside.<\/p>\n<p>Officials identified the suspect Tuesday as Raymond Azevedo, 35, who had done four stints in state prison since 1998 for crimes including unlawful possession of a firearm, malicious mischief, attempting to elude a pursing police vehicle and assault. He was most recently released in October 2014 and had been subject to community supervision until last month.<\/p>\n<p>In a chronology released Monday night, police said Azevedo ran in and out of several businesses, brandishing guns at staff, before fleeing out the back of a tattoo shop and stealing a Volkswagen at gunpoint. He drove to the University of Washington Athletic Center, where he stole a minivan at gunpoint, and then stopped at a rental car lot and forced two employees to turn over a Chevy Camaro.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect sped the wrong way up a one-way street in the University District, and a pursuing officer rear-ended him when he stopped for cross traffic on a major street. The jarring crash disabled the cruiser, and the officer got out and ran after the Camaro as it cut through a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>As police continued chasing him through North Seattle at 70 mph, he started firing back at them: \u201cShots fired. He\u2019s shooting at us,\u201d an officer calmly reports. Another directs them to back off.<\/p>\n<p>The chase came to an end as Azevedo tried to drive around a barricade of police vehicles and an officer plowed into him head-on, with another cruiser ramming the Camaro quickly afterward. Officers took cover behind their vehicles and opened fire as the Camaro started moving again, spinning out in a cloud of smoke before stopping for good.<\/p>\n<p>Azevedo was found to have two guns with him. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was tracing the weapons, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen officers involved were put on routine administrative leave pending a review of the shooting \u2014 so many that the department said commanders had to develop a staffing plan to ensure 911 response and neighborhood patrols were not compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Seattle police have released dash-cam videos showing a carjacker speeding the wrong way up a one-way street, firing at a pursuing patrol car and finally spinning out his stolen, wrecked Camaro in a cloud of smoke as officers shot and killed him. No bystanders or police suffered significant injuries in the events Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32305"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}