(Image: Ovation Apartments)
A pre-dawn party with a reported 200 revelers on the rooftop of a luxury First Hill apartment building ended with gunfire and a bloodied victim in serious condition early Sunday morning.
Seattle Police were called to the 700 block of Spring just before 6 AM as 911 callers reported 20 or more gunshots from the top of one of the twin 32-story towers and at least one person shot.
Arriving officers found a 22-year-old bleeding inside one of the building’s elevators. He had been shot at least three times according to emergency radio updates. The victim reportedly told police he did not know who had shot him and was not in any kind of altercation. Police say he was taken to Harborview in serious condition by Seattle Fire.
As the victim was being treated, police called in crowd control to deal with the party as officers made their way to the roof, according to East Precinct radio updates. No additional victims were located.
There were no immediate arrests. SPD is asking anyone with information about the incident to call the Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
According to the Seattle Department of Construction & Inspections, the apartment development rising on First Hill along I-5 has had issues with reported tenant violations of lease rules related to short-term rentals and non-residents accessing the building. The city investigation of a complaint filed last month has not been completed.
UPDATE: We’ve asked building developer Quarterra/Lennar for more information about the incident and will follow up if we hear back.
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Only guns make it possible.
Yes, guns….and immoral criminals.
Well, no actually. Guns are the only things that make shootings (with a gun) possible.
If you don’t like crime and the immoral actions criminals may take, advocate for a reduction in poverty and wealth inequality to combat “immoral criminals” as a whole.
Removing access to guns is the only way to directly stop gun violence.
This happened on the roof of a luxury apartment building. Had nothing to do with poverty or wealth inequality. We have a culture problem. Coming from an impoverished family it was nothing like today. A shooting was a rare occasion.
Don’t obfuscate, I know you can’t be that dumb.
First of all, you can’t ignore that all statistics point to poverty as the primary driver of crime across the world. I noted that ‘zach’ was ignorantly stating that a lack of morality was the reason for the shooting. Could be the case (not that zach would know), but statistical consensus says otherwise, and blaming “culture” or an individual’s morals is an unserious attempt at finding a systemic solution to crime, especially and specifically gun crime.
But, my overall point was that reducing access to guns will reduce the vast number of shootings, which is the most obvious statement ever! While growing up impoverished, as you said, you also experienced the drastic disparity in gun ownership compared to today that existed within our country before the 21st century began. And between 2000 and 2020 alone, the rate of gun ownership rose from around 7,000,000 gun sales per year to over 20,000,000 gun sales in 2020…EVERYONE has a gun now.
If you don’t see the problem as guns purely existing and in copius quantities with virtually no restrictions, you’re living in a complete fantasy.
You mis-characterize my comment. I clearly stated that such incidents are a COMBINATION of gun access AND immoral criminals.
Unless you’re religious, or are simple enough to think objective “good and evil” exists in the universe, you should consider looking at statistics for solutions to crime instead of personal anecdotes and trite moral judgements.
Wow you spun my post, you should get into politics. It’s a culture problem and guns are part of that but you can’t blame all crimes on poverty when it’s happening at a luxury complex, board rooms, the former POTUS, exclusive neighborhoods, house parties, kids from good neighborhoods coming into the city breaking in or breaking things etc etc. Poverty is related to crime but daily and mass shootings aren’t always related to it and we can’t blame the impoverished for the faults of our current culture.
So, since you know these people, shouldn’t you volunteer your insights to the authorities?
Capitol Hill is fine. It was an isolated incident. It was not close to people’s homes at all it was on a roof top. And if you do the math that’s like pike pine in walking distance.
What kind of crappy building management lets a 200-person overnight party happen on their rooftop? They don’t seem competent to run a building of that size.
AirBnB one-night rental gains access code to front door, elevator and rooftop party space. How much was the cover charge for the party? With a walk-away from clean-up hassles! Could be a good gig to explore all over Seattle.
Happened just before 6am. Wow, that was quite the party to go all night. Surely there were noise complaints to building management or the police… how did it not get shut down sooner??
These new rooftop deck spaces are set back far enough from the building’s edge to send the noise high. Neighbors blocks away likely were more disturbed than those directly below.