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My arms are shot, Mama, my leg, my chest.

Oh!

My chest. literally my tent Belview Washington is a clean suburb just outside Seattle, where tech wealth keeps the housing costs high, and the lawns neatly trimmed.

Just how I like them.

It's a family-oriented town, filled with gorgeous parks and trails, a place of true Pacific Northwest tranquility.

But on the morning of July 10th, 2020, that tranquility was broken. As the sun shone over the neat

hedges and parked cars, gunshots rang out in an apartment parking lot.

There was a man down, gasping for air.

We just heard several gunshots and people screaming right there.

It sounds like it's right outside.

I live in a residence in Lakemont behind the apartment,

so about five or six shots, it sounded like a,

like a light caliber weapon.

I think I just heard seven gun shots.

Someone screaming outside.

Help.

It sounds like it's outside building 16,

and we can hear a screen name.

I just heard seven shots and it looks like somebody has been shot, I mean the overlook at

Lakemont.

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