‘I’m blessed:’ Disabled Navy veteran survives Seattle waterfront shooting

SEATTLE —
A disabled Navy veteran says he’s grateful to be alive after he was shot in the chest on Seattle’s waterfront.
“More shocked I think than anything else. I just got hit really hard right here in the chest where he hit me real close,” said Harold Powell.
Powell is recovering at home after being released from the hospital on Sunday. His family has set up a GoFundMe to help with his recovery.

On Tuesday, prosecutors shared a newly obtained video that they say shows the suspect, 32-year-old Gregory William Timm, firing a gun at Powell’s chest.
Seattle police say the shooting happened just after 6 p.m. on July 31 in front of the Starbucks at Pier 55.
“I seen the slug. I can see the heat of the slug coming at me and then just, ‘boom!’ Knocked me back,” Powell explained.
Powell told KIRO 7 he thought that was the end for him.