SEATTLE - A man in his 30s suffered a gunshot wound to the chest in a shooting in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
The man was walking along in the 700 block of East Union Street when he was shot just before 6 p.m. Friday.
"I heard a bang, and then a pause, and bang, bang, bang," said Matt Irvin, who was outside his apartment at Boylston and East Union when the shots rang out.
Irvin says he saw a man stumbling and ran to his side.
"I told the man to lay down and I could see he had a dime-size bullet hole in his chest, so I tried to keep him calm," he continued.
Other passersby stopped to help until police and medics arrived.
Seattle Police spokesman, Jeff Kappel, says the man was shot at least once in the chest.
The suspect was seen speeding away in a dark sedan.
While there is no official motive for the crime, Irvin says the victim said it was a robbery.
"He said they wanted my watch," said Irvin. "And I looked at the watch on his arm and it was a cheap watch."
The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
The suspect is still at large.
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