Seattle Police recovered a firearm and at least at least one shell casing after a reported gunfire incident Tuesday night near Pike and Minor.
911 callers reported an altercation and gunfire around 7:40 PM on Minor Ave. According to East Precinct radio updates, arriving officers found two victims who reported being shot at but not hit by the gunfire. Seattle Fire was called to treat a patient at the scene for a reported injury.
Police were searching for the suspect who was reported leaving the area on foot. In addition to one shell casing, officers found a firearm dropped as the suspect left the scene.
There were no reported arrests.
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Seattle Police were tracking down teenage suspects and Garfield High School went into a brief “shelter in place” lockdown Thursday after a reported armed robbery near the Central District campus involving juvenile victims.
According to East Precinct radio updates, police were called to 22nd and Jefferson around 12:30 PM to a reported robbery involving a group of young suspects including at least one who appeared to have a firearm in his waistband.
Police were in the process of contacting possible suspects around the busy campus and students on the move for lunch. At least one juvenile suspect was identified during a traffic stop. Police were looking for phones possible stolen by the group. Continue reading →
There were remarkably no injuries as a rolling gunfight left shell casings and bullet damage across several blocks around 23rd Ave and Spruce Tuesday including a Chevy Yukon the flipped during the shootout.
911 callers reported dozens of shots fired just before 4:30 PM as at least two vehicles were reported in an exchange of gunfire near 22nd and Cherry.
Police were soon called to 23rd and Spruce where a 911 caller reported the flipped Yukon SUV and a person fleeing the vehicle with a gun. Police reported the at least one bullet hole could be seen in the vehicle’s windshield. Continue reading →
A woman was shot in the back and was hospitalized and police were investigating if more than one person had been in a Friday night incident at the Pantages Apartments on E Denny Way.
Police reported blood was also found inside a vehicle at the scene as they worked to determine where the shooting took place.
Seattle Fire and Seattle Police were called to the building around 10:30 PM to a report someone had shot a woman from outside the building. Arriving officers determined the shot had mostly likely not been fired through a window into the unit and took two people into custody, according to East Precinct radio updates. Continue reading →
One person was taken to the hospital and another was in custody as police searched for the reported gunman in an early Thanksgiving morning shooting on Capitol Hill.
Seattle Police and Seattle Fire were called to the gunfire near Bellevue and E Olive St. just before 6 AM where a man had been reportedly shot in the leg, according to emergency radio updates.
Arriving officers began pursuit of two men spotted fleeing the area near Crawford Place and took one into custody after a brief foot chase while the other was able to escape on foot. Continue reading →
Kshama Sawant knows who her successor will be on a shifted Seattle City Council. This week, the veteran District 3 leader is hoping to shepherd forward a few last key initiatives including millions of dollars for mental health services in the city’s educational programs and millions more for sustaining the city’s ability to boost wages for its workers as she makes her final pass through the city’s budget process before she prepares to leave office at the end of the year.
The Seattle City Council meets Monday to begin finalizing an amendment package with more than 120 items as it works to rebalance Mayor Bruce Harrell’s 2024 proposals. You can view the full slate of proposed 2024 amendments and voting results here.
Sawant’s core push in the amendment process comes with some of the positioning the city has grown to expect from its firebrand socialist councilmember. The amendments she has put her muscle behind this fall would increase the JumpStart tax on Seattle’s largest companies by $20 million to fund “K-12 educational supports, prioritizing services that improve mental health outcomes” and another $40 million to support wage growth for city employees. In her message to supporters, Sawant, of course, refers to JumpStart as the “Amazon tax” while also tossing yet another barb at the Democratic party.
“Amazon just tripled its profits. Other big corporations also have reported record profits,” Sawant writes in the message calling for support at Monday’s public budget hearing. “These big corporations can easily pay a small amount more in our city’s Amazon Tax so that public sector workers and public school students can get their basic needs met.”
The council’s budget process must now be “self-balancing.” “That means when an amendment proposes new spending, it will have to explain how it will be funded – either by identifying new revenue or by taking money from somewhere else,” a council brief on the process reads. Continue reading →
Gunfire shattered glass Friday morning on the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of business owner D’Vonne Pickett, Jr. at MLK and Union. Teens with a more recent beef may have been responsible.
Police were called to Pickett’s mail services shop The Postman early Friday after reports of multiple gunshots just before 5 AM. Arriving officers found shattered windows but no injuries. According to East Precinct radio updates, witness reports described three male teens fleeing southbound on foot on MLK after the shooting. There were no reported arrests. Continue reading →
After incidents across District 3 including a deadly shooting last week, gunfire in a fight at Garfield High School, and shots fired in a Broadway parking lot, the candidates to represent D3 on the Seattle City Council addressed the city’s gun violence and possible solutions in a candidate forum Wednesday night in the Leschi neighborhood. One of the candidates experienced the worry from the incident at Garfield only hours before the forum first hand:
“I’m a mom at Garfield, so I had the worst hour-and-a-half of my life this afternoon because I couldn’t get ahold of my kid,” candidate Alex Hudson said.
District 3 candidates Hudson and Joy Hollingsworth discussed public safety and gun violence in the Wednesday night Leschi Community Candidate Forum and explained their positions and proposals for making the district safer including alternatives to police.
“I’m a really big proponent of our community gun violence prevention programs,” Hollingsworth said, talking about Safe Passages, a non-arrest intervention program that provides guardianship in the neighborhood by adults from the community. “They deescalate a lot of the gun violence that’s going on in our community…we feel the heat of all the gun violence that’s ravaging our community.”
Hollingsworth said she believes partnering with additional community gun violence prevention programs and organizations would help stem gun violence. Continue reading →
The King County Medical Examiner has identified the man shot and killed last week at 25th and Union. Seattle Police have provided little information about what led up to the homicide. There have been no announced arrests.
Officials say Nakawa Beasley, 45, was shot and killed in the Thursday night slaying.
Police were called to the area around 7:45 PM after reported gunfire and found Beasley down on the street with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to East Precinct radio updates. Police began CPR at the scene but Beasley was reported dead by the time Seattle Fire arrived.
SPD says it is not known what events led up to the shooting and has asked the public for help in the investigation. Police were searching for the suspect who reportedly fled in a vehicle. A search was underway for a white sedan possibly involved in the incident. Witnesses reported hearing between two to six shots. Continue reading →
Police found shell casings strewn in a parking lot and were looking for the man reported to have fired them in a bout of gunfire Tuesday night near Broadway and Pine.
Multiple 911 callers reported the shots fired just after 9 PM and police found more witnesses as officers arrived at the scene in the parking lot in the 1500 block of Broadway lined by Capitol Hill Tobacco and the Spice Box restaurant.
According to East Precinct radio updates, witnesses reported a man had opened fire in the parking lot before fleeing on foot southbound. Continue reading →
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