A 14-year-old on Bainbridge Island was shot with an air rifle April 21, sustaining minor injuries. The suspects are still at large.

The minor was riding a scooter on Torvanger Road preparing to head home as night fell. Around 8:20 p.m. a gray pickup carrying two bicycles in the bed passed by. Someone in the truck stuck an air rifle out of the passenger side window and shot at the victim twice, striking their left arm.

“It was a random act of violence,” said the victim’s father, Dalius Gilvydis.

The resulting welt seemed to come from a plastic BB, not a metal one or airsoft pellet, BI officer Colt Lasnier wrote in the police report.

The minor noted at least two males in the cab, both wearing dark hoodies. After the incident was shared by family on social media, some BI community members offered information about other incidents that took place that night, or in the same area.

One person reported a man behaving erratically at a nearby corner store that night around the same time. The man was shouting expletives into his cell phone. Another resident, Patti Roman, said she was walking east along Torvanger in early April when a passing pickup swerved toward her.

“When [the driver] got close to me, he deliberately swerved his pickup over the line to where I was walking, and I jumped so hard to my left to not get hit that I fell down,” Roman said. “He just kept driving. By the way, I wasn’t even on the pavement. I was walking on the grassy area on the side of [the road].”

This is the first shooting on BI that has not involved a police officer in at least 15 years. Despite the scare, Gilvydis and his family still feel “very safe.”

“You hear about crimes like mailbox smashing, car break-ins, and I’m always shocked, like, ‘Who the hell are these people?’ I could understand crimes of desperation, but BI is not really that place,” he said. “I chalk it up to bored, delinquent teens. Society’s always going to have that.”