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- 10th Ave E hold-up: A group of possibly three suspects reportedly held up a female victim at gunpoint as she walked along 10th Ave E waiting for a bus early Monday morning. According to East Precinct radio dispatches on the incident, the victim was robbed by a suspect armed with a silver pistol just after 2 AM along 10th Ave E near Galer where the victim was walking when she was approached by the group. The victim then walked to a nearby residence to call police but by then nearly 20 minutes had passed and the suspects were nowhere to be found. SPD is investigating the hold-up as an armed robbery.
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Thanks to neighbor Alex Crick for the picture from the police response Friday night
23rd/Union gunfire: A scary scene unfolded around the busy corner of 23rd and Union Saturday night around 5 PM as multiple witnesses reported seeing a gunfight break out between a male shooter on foot and at least one other vehicle speeding away from the area around the Midtown Center parking lot. A large contingent of police arrived in the area and teamed up before approaching the scene where some witnesses reported more than 20 shots were fired. Nobody was reported hit by the gunfire and no suspects could be located when police arrived. Shell casings from at least two guns were found at the scene and multiple businesses in the are sustained damage from flying bullets, a SPD spokesperson tells CHS. The spokesperson said the department’s gang unit is investigating.
Drug dealers are gettting more brazen about their interactions on Seattle streets. We had the druggie or drug dealer that died on 13th ave a few weeks ago (can’t believe there was a memorial setup for him). Now shootings on 23rd and Union. All this is coming from the south end of Seattle into the “richer” areas that are buying the drugs. Ugh. Seattle is getting too big for a passive law enforcement. We need to spend money on the poorer neighborhoods to help get education and safety there so those kids don’t grow up with futures of drugs and fast money. Right now we’re setting up our citizens for failure in our poorer neighborhoods.
While I agree that more can be done (aside from whitewashing gentrification), is it so hard to believe there are people who loved that dead “druggie or drug dealer” enough to memorialize him? Criminals are human, too, and usually are suffering worse than those that abide laws.
Anyone else find it ironic that so many shootings occur at this location where an ATF cctv camera is posted.
More money will do nothing to fix problems like this.
@Terran Dub
Ironic that shootings occur where the AFT set up a camera? It’s the opposite of ironic, it means that putting a camera there was well informed decision. Also means a-holes with guns don’t know or don’t care that there is a camera there.
Sadly, shootings at 23rd and Union are nothing new. The intersection has had problems with drug dealing and violence during my entire life. The main difference now is that there are more potential witnesses as there are more people out on the sidewalks and at the new businesses, so the acts seem more brazen.
I do agree that passive policing isn’t serving anyone. Once a gang member kills someone, there is immense suffering for the victim’s family and friends. It is also a life destroying incident for the perpetrator as it is nearly impossible to turn one’s life around at that point.
Maybe Draze will create a new rap song about how these guys are ruining the neighborhood!
They need to just get on with it and tear down the abandoned post office and other buildings on that corner. I doubt there will be many shootings on that corner when it’s a 6 story mixed used apartment building with a yoga studio and chase bank on the ground floor.
Really, so what are you really trying to say? The Ballard, Fremont, neighborhood has all of those things (Chase, apartments etc) and plenty of crime including shootings.
Sadly I was hanging christmas lights on my house when the gunfight unfolded. * Sigh *