Police were called to the controversial Columbia City bar Angie’s yesterday evening after a man opened fire in the bar.
We’ve heard a couple of different versions of the story, but police have told us that an armed man accidentally discharged his gun in the bar, firing a single round into Angie’s ceiling.
The other version we’ve heard—which is making its way around neighborhood groups in South Seattle—was that the incident might have involved a racially motivated confrontation between several men. However, police were pretty clear that this wasn’t the case.
No one was injured in the incident, but this probably can’t be great for Angie’s, which is in the midst of trying to convince the city to let them stay open.
As we reported in our very first story here on Seattlecrime.com, the city tried to block the renewal of Angie’s liquor license last October.
Two months later, the bar got a stay of execution, and the bar’s owners personally met with City Attorney Pete Holmes earlier a month or two ago to talk about the bar’s future, and ways to curb neighbor complaints about drug dealing and other problems allegedly associated with the bar.
It’s still unclear whether anyone was arrested in this incident, but we’ll update if we get more today.
