Seattle got a new shipment from Chicago.
Via Seattle PI
Two young men accused of firing more than a dozen shots outside a Seattle rap show now face felony charges.
King County prosecutors claim Marquis Jackson and Jerrod Marks II opened fire as a gangster rap concert concluded at a Beacon Hill bar. One of the rounds fired by the men blew through the wall of a home and lodged feet from a sleeping woman.
According to charging papers, Marks – a convicted felon – explained to police he was simply “test” firing the stolen Glock handgun later found in a car he was driving. Both men have now been charged with drive-by shooting and unlawful gun possession.
Jackson, 20, and Marks, 19, are described by police as members of a minor South Seattle street gang. Police claim the performers at the concert near the shooting scene are members of two Central District gangs, and that the long-running feud between gangs in two parts of the city played a role in the shooting.
Gang violence in Seattle is often described as stemming from a generations-long conflict between members of Central District and South Seattle gangs. While the young men involved often have deep ties to each other outside of gang life, the CD-Southend divide is apparent in much of the youth violence in Seattle and its southern suburbs.
Seattle police contend that geography-based beef drove the violence Jan. 11 outside Dahlak Bar, a North Beacon Hill restaurant and venue.
The night of the shooting, the South State Street bar was hosting a gangster rap concert headlined by the Central District gang members. Writing the court, a Seattle Police Department gang unit detective said one of the rappers often rapped about killing Southend gang members.
The detective said he and other gang unit detectives were outside the bar shortly before 2 a.m. when shots rang out. Investigators later determined that at least 12 shots were fired nearby, at the McDonald’s at the intersection of Rainier Avenue South and South Bayview Street.
HT Theo Spark