Unable to speak, victim in Belltown drive-by still IDs shooter, court documents say

By SCOTT SUNDE, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

A man shot in the neck in a Belltown drive-by shooting was unable to speak and was in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center earlier in the week.

Still, Kelvin Owie was able to identify his alleged shooter from a photo montage as he lay in a hospital bed earlier this week. And he also provided Seattle police Detective E. Jason Kasner with a motive for the shooting.

“It was the same guys that broke into my car/wife car in Seattle about two weeks ago,” he wrote in a note he handed to Kasner on Monday, court documents say.

On Wednesday, prosecutors charged Farhan Enow Edin, 20, and Abdulahi Yusef Farah, 22, with first-degree assault. Edin, whom Owie identified as the shooter, was also charged with unlawful possession of a firearm.

Prosecutors say Edin has a lengthy criminal record, including convictions for drugs, assault and car theft.

The shooting, which took place early Sunday morning, was one of the crimes in Belltown and around its bars and nightclubs that created neighborhood outrage and prompted Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn on Tuesday to announce a plan to battle such incidents with more cops on the street.

Court documents say the shooting that wounded Owie is the result of a car prowl on June 6.

He caught someone trying to prowl his wife’s car. But a white Chevy Camaro arrived, and the driver used a crow bar to try to hit Owie and another man who were holding the suspect.

The suspect got away in the Camaro.

Owie saw the same Camaro early Sunday morning after leaving Kwatay’s Restaurant and Lounge. Owie was driving to 500 Wall St. to pick up some friends when he noticed the Camaro following him.

Owie parked his car and was walking to get his friends when a passenger in the Camaro fired three or four shots. Owie was hit in the neck, and surgeons at Harborview had to perform a tracheotomy on him.

Officers found the Camaro on Interstate 5 and stopped it after a brief chase. An officer following the Camaro saw something silver-colored being thrown from the car.

Court documents say a .38-caliber revolver was found near where the officer saw something thrown out of the car.

Both Edin and Farah denied having anything to do with the shooting when police questioned them.

Bail has been set at $750,000 for Edin and $500,000 for Farah.