By Emily Heffter and Mike Lindblom

Seattle Times staff reporters

Police officers and others talk in front of a store in Kent where La Raza held their first annual lowrider car show.


A fight at a crowded Kent car show escalated Saturday afternoon, leaving 10 people shot as cars sped away from the scene and frightened spectators ducked into the safety of nearby businesses.

Hundreds of people packed the La Plaza parking lot all day before the shooting. At least one shooter fired from the front of the shopping center into the crowd.

Patrons and employees in nearby shops and restaurants locked the doors and crouched in back rooms as the crack of gunfire filled the air like fireworks.

“First I heard like six shots, then they kept going,â€