Bothell Police and the Department of Homeland Security has responded to the Food & Drug Administration regional office in Bothell this morning.
An entire block around the scene at 22215 26th Avenue SE has been blocked off. A ball cap and a side view mirror in the streets, and tire tracks in the grass leading to the northwest entrance to the building.
Police say someone reported a sound of gunshots or a car backfiring, and that a car sped away from the scene around 8 a.m.
Employees were still allowed to go inside the building.
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Eyewitness Report and Photos
Eyewitnesses say they saw a late model grey Dodge Charger speeding down 26th Avenue at the time.
Update:
Guard shoots at teenage driver outside Bothell FDA office
KIRO News 7
BOTHELL, Wash. — Bothell police said a security officer fired shots at a teenage driver outside the regional Food and Drug Administration building in Bothell.
Police said two security officers approached a suspicious car at the Pacific Regional Laboratory Northwest office at 22201 23rd Drive SE around 7 a.m.
Police said a guard fired at least one shot at the driver of the car, a 15-year-old boy. The teenager then fled the scene, struck another vehicle, and then went home, police said.
The teenager then went to Evergreen Hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries. It is not known if he was injured from a gunshot or in the crash.
A Federal Protective Service spokesman said the suspect was found and taken into custody.
The building was locked down after the incident but the lockdown has since been lifted.
Video from Chopper 7 showed a car being towed from the scene and tire tracks on a grassy area.
The shooting occurred about a block away from the Secondary Academy For Success, a school in the Northshore district.
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Eyewitness Photo
Homeland Security still has the building surrounded as of 11:30 a.m. Pacific.
“Police said two security officers approached a suspicious car at the Pacific Regional Laboratory Northwest office at 22201 23rd Drive SE around 7 a.m.”
Just WHAT the hell constitutes a ‘suspicious car’ these days?
Was it sporting an ‘I love Osama bin Laden’ bumper sticker, or what?
too bad the FDA survived