Two drive-by shootings lead to arrest; nobody hurt

A Port Angeles man remained in custody Sunday after he was arrested on Dec. 16 for investigation of two drive-by shootings.

Seth D. Weathers, 31, allegedly shot at two people on horseback in Agnew and at another motorist in Port Angeles from a blue pickup truck.

Arrested while armed with a handgun, he was being held on a $5,000 bond for investigation of two counts of drive-by shooting and one count of carrying a concealed weapon without a license.

No one was reported hurt in the drive-by shootings.

The first shooting report was at about 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, from two people on horseback in the 100 block of Finn Hall Road in Agnew, just west of Sequim.

They told deputies that a speeding driver fired three shots at them after they tried to slow him down by yelling and waving, the sheriff’s office said in a press release.

The riders described the vehicle as a blue pickup with a canopy. Deputies recovered one spent shell casing in the area that day. The casing was from a 9mm round manufactured by Hornaday.

A witness provided detectives with home video and audio surveillance, in which three gunshots can be heard. Seconds later, a blue truck similar to a Dodge is seen on the video driving east to west, the sheriff’s office said.

On Dec. 16, investigators were provided with a second video filmed about an eight-minute drive from the reported crime scene, according to the release.

Later that day, a second report of a drive-by shooting was received by the Port Angeles Police Department.

A witness said the driver of a blue Dodge pickup fired at another motorist in the area of the intersection of Park and Peabody streets, the sheriff’s office said.

Officers recovered one spent shell casing, a 9mm manufactured by Hornaday.

Deputies set up a perimeter along certain choke points and a deputy assigned to the perimeter saw the pickup traveling east on U.S. Highway 101 and followed it.

The pickup pulled into the Walmart Supercenter parking lot east of Port Angeles and the deputy and a Washington State Patrol trooper performed a high-risk traffic stop on it, the sheriff’s office said in the release.

Weathers, the only occupant of the vehicle, was armed with a concealed 9mm handgun that had one round in the chamber and six more rounds in the 15-round magazine, the sheriff’s office said, adding that the rounds were all manufactured by Hornaday.

On Dec. 17, members of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team searched the Finn Hall area but found no more evidence, the sheriff’s office said.

Anyone with information about these or similar events is asked to contact the sheriff’s office at 360- 417-2459.