Seattle Police were investigating a third gun incident in as many nights in the core of the Pike/Pine and Broadway bar and club district after reports of gunfire and a fight involving a crescent wrench in front of Neighbours early Sunday morning.
Arriving police found one person down in the 1500 block of Broadway after being hit in the head by the wrench in the incident around 3:30 AM. Witnesses said they heard gunfire during the fight though police were looking into whether the shot was related to the assault, according to East Precinct radio dispatches.
Shaun Knittel of public safety group Social Outreach Seattle posted about Sunday’s incident:
Shots fired (again) on E Pike and Harvard. NOT at Neighbours but Neighbours security did help individual hit by wrench who was involved. Shooter threw gun into trash can on Broadway after running into a person. I’ve had enough. Our district representative does nothing about crime, shootings are common now, and obvious gang violence on the Hill is going unchecked. NO MORE!
We have not confirmed if SPD recovered a gun.
The reports follow an incident early Saturday morning near Harvard and Pine in which the suspect’s arrest was caught on video and another early Friday morning at Harvard and Pike in a small string of overnight gun incidents reported to police. Despite the gunplay, there have been no reported injuries.
Where’s Kshama? What’s she doing about it? Oh…nothing? Surprise there – safety and law enforcement don’t fit in her narrative.
She thinks the solution to our problem is even less cops then we have now.
Remember, Police bad, criminals good.
Good luck getting any time or attention from Sawant. She has her agenda and it does not necessarily involve her district. But this is what happens when the majority of people don’t bother to vote.
Anyone else here shots in the North Broadway area in the middle of Sunday night? Near the Lowell school? I was woken up by two very loud pops, and this is the second time this has happened in the last couple months. Maybe some jerks with firecrackers? Sounds like gun shots though.
Added a very brief note about here on Monday morning’s blotter post
What happened to the foot patrols from last summer? Put a police presence on the ground and this stuff won’t happen.