Robert Young, a Washington construction worker, returned to the shopping center yesterday to talk with police. He said he heard a muffled gunshot and saw a white van.Young said as he backed his truck out of his parking spot, a white Astro van with two men inside tried to turn into his lane. He said the driver appeared very agitated to find his way blocked and instead drove by a neighboring Chinese restaurant and out of sight.
Young described the driver as a short man of slight build who appeared to be Mideastern. He said, "I got a good look at the guy."
The driver "seemed to be excessively irritated because he couldn't pull into my lane," he said. "I thought this fool was going to want to get out of the van and duke or something. But he didn't. He kept on going."
The "discredited witness" was the one who claimed the AK-74, beige van with broken tail light. Not Robert Young.