Update 8:34 am Thursday Sept. 8

The Seattle Police Department has posted this update: Witnesses described hearing 4 to 5 shots just before seeing the blue Pontiac leave the area. The victim sustained a single gunshot wound to his back, it was considered serious, but not life-threatening. Officers and Gang Unit detectives located one .40 caliber shell casing in the street and a bullet hole in a house in that block. Gang Unit detectives are following up on this investigation.

Original post 8:00 pm Sept. 7
Seattle police report a 20-year-old man was shot in the back shortly after 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 7 in the Highland Park neighborhood.

The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center and "a suspect vehicle may be a blue car, possibly a Pontiac, which fled the scene," according to police.

The shooting occurred in the 9400 block of 11th Ave s.w. Roxbury Street is the 9400 block and 11th s.w. does not go through.

A young man who identified himself as the brother of the man shot said, "They took him to the hospital but he's going to be alright."