Seattle Police are investigating another armed street robbery on Capitol Hill after a victim reported being jumped by two assailants in the parking lot Tuesday night above the Harvard Market QFC.
According to the SPD brief on the incident, the victim said two males jumped him from behind and dragged him to the ground in the busy lot near Broadway and Union just after 7:30 PM Tuesday. One of the suspects pulled out a gun and demanded the victim’s wallet, phone, and other items before fleeing the parking area.
Police searched the area but there were no arrests. The victim’s phone was located nearby, ditched in a storm drain.
The mugging comes amid an uptick in street crime reports around the Pike/Pine and Broadway core as the state’s economic reopening has increased foot traffic and activity in the area. Early last Sunday, a person was shot in the leg in an exchange of gunfire involving more than 25 shots at Broadway and Pike.
Police say another reported armed robbery on 11th Ave between Pine and Pike early Thursday morning turned out to be a domestic violence situation involving a couple fighting over property. The involved parties originally reported being held up at gunpoint after leaving a nearby club.
More people on the streets also means more weird 911 calls. On Wednesday around 5:30 PM, a caller reported “military ordnance” on the sidewalk in the 300 block of 19 Ave E near the Miller Community Center. SPD’s Arson Bomb Squad responded and determined the item — described as a “mortar” — was inert. SPD didn’t say whether the object’s owner was located.
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I’m sorry for the victim. 7:30pm in summer is practically broad daylight. That mini mall parking lot, hidden away from the street, seems to be a magnet for crime and bad behavior.
This neighborhood’s going to hell in a handbasket. I live at Belmont & E Howell, where CHS reported an armed mugging earlier this week. Honestly, I can handle the homeless people taking up the only spaces they have available to them. But between the muggings, break-ins, protests, and the shitty music my neighbors insist on broadcasting from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day, I can’t wait to leave this neighorhood’s BS behind. Or at least find some cheaper rent. Wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t paying an arm and a leg to live here.
I agree…
Time for you to move out. Bye, Felicia
Can’t reach full hypocrisy with out comments like this. Achievement unlocked!
Explain the hypocrisy, it’s alluding me.
The whole shtick that we’re empathetic, compassionate, inclusive kind people turns to “love it or leave it” when someone complains. It’s like what you’d expect in some small southern town when an immigrant complains about something. The right still has the edge on crazy and hypocrisy, but the left is catching up.
Is it really “going to hell”? growing up around here we called that stretch of Summit there “Scummit” or “Slummit”. Nothings changed.
It’s never been normal to have multiple armed robberies during normal business hours. 3:00 a.m. cutting through calendar Anderson sure… But you need to be honest that it’s definitely not going in the right direction right now
Crime is up this year, but reporting on crime has increased significantly since your neighborhood was outside of the realm of “hell” or a “handbasket.”
Why in the 70s and 80s, they handed out flowers on each streetcorner on that street! There were no junkies or robberies at all, ever!
(None of this is to say there aren’t significant issues; it’s just the narrative of this rapid decline into chaos is generally not backed by any facts, and is more of an issue with people being unable to understand that being more aware of crime doesn’t mean there’s more crime. Like look up the early 90s violent crime stats when gangs were even more prevalent.)
I found this line of argument that “oh it was always this bad” to be extremely puzzling… but maybe it’s just me who have been to a few wonderful cities and have a sky-high expectation that a city shouldn’t be a crime jungle and repeat offenders and organized crimes should get prosecuted.
It’s not that “it was always this bad.” It’s that “it used to be considerably worse” is factually accurate. Which also means that today is actually better than it was in those supposed golden days. This is something the “sky is falling” brigade can’t seem to wrap their brains around.
And I bet if you followed local blogs (or NextDoor, lol) in your “few wonderful cities,” you’d find people posting that they’re complete hellscapes of crime and degradation, and that there was some glorious past day when everything was perfect.
Typically, those glorious days were pre-social media.