A man was reported shot multiple times in the chest and a handgun was recovered at the scene after a shooting Friday night at 25th and Jefferson in a string of gun violence that has continued in the area around Garfield High School.
According to East Precinct and Seattle Fire radio updates, the shooting took place just before 10 PM. Arriving officers reported finding the 29-year-old victim with gunshot wounds to his chest. Police also found a firearm on the pavement at the shooting scene.
The victim was transported to Harborview by Seattle Fire but we do not have information on his condition.
Police were searching the area for people reported leaving the area on foot and a vehicle reported leaving the scene.
Friday’s shooting follows another shooting a block away at 26th and Jefferson on Wednesday that sent a teenager to the hospital. Late last Thursday afternoon, the parking lot at Garfield became a crime sceneย after a shootout in front of the school that sent ย a 19-year-old to the hospital.
There have been no reported arrests in the string of shootings.
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I told my Garfield student son not to go play ball with his friends at the field tonight – because of two shootings in a week. Thank goodness he heeded my advice & the kids changed plans. He saw all the emergency lights on his way home. I feel sick for people hurt and killed in this violence, and that the community is being terrorized by people with guns at the ready for every conflict.
Agree, I have a freshman at Garfield. This is sad. I hope they find, arrest, prosecute and jail the perps, but won’t hold my breath.