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Two people were reported shot in a barrage of gunfire Tuesday just before 9 PM on MLK Way across from Powell Barnett Park in the Central District.
According to East Precinct and Seattle Fire radio updates, 911 callers reported three to four shooters in a shootout involving around 30 shots fired. Arriving officers reported two people injured at the scene including one victim shot in the leg and one shot in the shoulder.
Seattle Fire was transporting both victims to the hospital.
UPDATE: SPD says the people shot were a a 24-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man. Both were taken to Harborview Medical Center in stable condition.
Police were searching for evidence in an area near 20th and Alder where the incident reportedly began. Police were also searching for at least one vehicle believed to have been involved in the incident. SPD says “multiple residences in the area with ballistic damage, and officers collected approximately two dozen spent shell casings.”
The shooting comes in the wake of the October murder of D’Vonne Pickett, Jr. outside his business at MLK and Union and came on the same day as a deadly shooting at North Seattle’s Ingraham High School.
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Shootings are bad and all, but don’t fall for the “violent crime on the rise” rhetoric.
I grew up outside of Detroit. There were multiple shootings nightly on local news. There were (and still are) select pockets that you could visit. There were/are other pockets that cops don’t even respond to.
Seattle has some crime, some violent crime, but it is quite a safe, lovely city.
Not anymore it isn’t Hasn’t been for roughly 6 years or so. Take a walk around downtown anywhere and you’ll see first hand.
Tell me you haven’t been downtown in over a year without telling me.
I love hearing the opinion of someone once living outside Detroit informing me about the gritty realities of inner city Detroit, city life in general, Seattle city life, and the acceptable levels of violence I should accept in my neighborhood. Please excuse yourself from the conversation.
Agreed! I’ve lived a block away from the shooting for 19 years. I still feel safe walking around…things happen, awareness happens, but we live in a wonderful neighborhood.
Forgive us if we aspire to retain our ‘better than Detroit’ status. The fact is that violent crime is rising in Seattle, including assaults and shooting incidents. That’s what the statistics say, and it backs up what many people feel. And your comment seems to imply that existing violence is a-ok as long as it exists primarily in certain pockets of our city. By your logic, since those pockets are easily avoided, we shouldn’t bother being concerned. I believe I should be able to go anywhere in this city and not be concerned about being assaulted or shot. I can’t even do that in all parts of Capitol Hill, so I’m not satisfied. We have done better, and we can do better again.
I think it’s more the nature of what’s going on. I’m not sure this is actually a crime, and it’s certainly not something I’d report, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been accosted by crazed men screaming at me in the middle of the day in the last two years. I’ve even been groped. Maybe I’m a magnet for these types, as a small woman, but I can’t even walk to the dentist half the time without some dude in the middle of a crisis getting in my face. I’m not exaggerating, this happens so often that I won’t go out alone after dark anymore, and it sucks. I’ve lived on Capitol Hill for 20 years and have never felt afraid until the COVID years. I just want a politician who can take into account outer safety as well as the welfare of these people.