Ghost gun used in Pioneer Square carjacking lands suspect 6 years
Aug 4, 2025, 6:45 PM
Credit: United States Attorney's office
A Seattle聽man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for an armed carjacking in Pioneer Square last summer, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
Louis Montel De鈥橝ndre Dowers, 32, pleaded guilty in April to carjacking and using a firearm.
U.S. District Judge John H. Chun handed down the sentence Monday in a Seattle courtroom, calling Dowers’ actions 鈥渢errifying crimes.鈥�
According to court documents, the incident began on June 9 outside the Seattle Team Shop on Occidental Avenue South. A man was sitting in his parked BMW while his wife shopped when Dowers approached him, pulling a gun and telling him to leave, declaring, 鈥淚t鈥檚 mine now. Get out.鈥�
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Police said officers tracked the stolen vehicle to Auburn, near a local middle school. A King County deputy then found and arrested Dowers. He was found carrying a privately manufactured gun, commonly referred to as a “ghost gun.”
The victims shared how the trauma still affects them during sentencing. In a written statement, they described living with the 鈥渕oment of terror… every single day鈥� and said the attack had 鈥渞obbed [them] of peace.鈥�
A restitution hearing is scheduled for October 27, 2025.
