Detectives arrest woman for firing shots outside busy Bellevue restaurant
BELLEVUE, Wash. - Detectives arrested a woman accused of firing shots outside a restaurant in Bellevue last week.
According to the Bellevue Police Department (BPD), in the early morning hours of Sept. 24, multiple officers responded to a disturbance in downtown Bellevue.
Bellevue Police Department
It was reported that two groups of people that had previously been in a physical altercation earlier in the night met up again for another fight on the sidewalk in front of Earl’s restaurant.
In the second fight, a woman drew a semi-automatic pistol from her purse. She fired two rounds, one in straight upward – striking a overhead glass awning. The second shot was fired downward through a grate.
Both groups fled in multiple directions.
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Detectives recovered two spend shell casings and a live round from the scene.
After reviewing surveillance video of the incident, and were able to quickly identify the woman who fired the gun as a 43-year-old Des Moines resident.
On Thursday, the BPD SWAT team arrested her in Des Moines without incident.
When she was arrested, she was in possession of a semi-automatic pistol.
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She was booked into the King County Jail for first-degree malicious mischief. Additional misdemeanors for unlawful discharge of a firearm and reckless endangerment will also be filed.