One victim was taken to the hospital and another was reportedly grazed by a bullet but not seriously injured in an overnight shooting on Capitol Hill near 10th and Aloha.
According to East Precinct radio reports, police were called to the reported drive-by shooting just after 3 AM and found two victims.
Seattle Fire says it treated a 43-year-old woman and transported her to Harborview in stable condition despite reported “multiple gunshot injuries to the extremities” in the assault. The male victim was reportedly grazed by a bullet but was not seriously injured.
The victims were reportedly driving in the area at the time of the shooting but it was not clear what led up to the gunfire.
Police were searching for a suspect vehicle described as a silver sedan with tinted windows that was last seen turning onto E Aloha eastbound. Officers at the scene were collecting evidence including at least on shell casing found near the intersection.
There were no reported arrests.
10th Ave E was closed to traffic during the investigation and medical response.
UPDATE: SPD has posted a brief on the shooting that includes some conflicting information including the reported age of the victim:
At 3:09 a.m., patrol officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 900 block of 10th Avenue East. Police arrived and located two victims seeking refuge nearby. A 22-year-old male was grazed by a bullet in his leg. A woman, 33 was shot in both of her hands. Both victims were treated by the Seattle Fire Department. The woman was transported to Harborview Medical Center in stable condition. Multiple shell casings were recovered in the 1100 block of 10th Avenue East. The vehicle was damaged by multiple points of gunfire. The suspect(s) fled the area in a vehicle and were not located. The circumstances leading up to the shooting are under investigation. Detectives with the Gun Violence Reduction Unit processed the scene and have taken lead on this investigation.
Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact the SPD Violent Crime Tip Line at (206) 233-5000
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Shocking it had tinted windows. Stay off the hill on block party weekend.
This city is fucked.
Guns.
This is fucked up. Get all criminals off the streets – this is unacceptable. Enforce the rules, including on all criminal drug sellers + tent dwellers.
Every week the north end of Broadway has been having shootings. Never really used to. Since policing changed after 2020 (no enforcement on many drug related crime after BLM and Defund) and since several new LIHI managed buildings for low-barrier drug users opened north of the Link rail station, the more ‘urban’ problems have been leakng northward. Now most days Broadway Ave north of John/Olive Way has multiple numbers of drug after dark as dealers and users stake out popular corners.
New normal for the Hill. New arrivals won’t notice. Old timers one by one just leave. A once beautiful part of Seattle has turned feral and dark. For years “Blooms on Broadway” was a popular spot on the corner of Republican and Broadway. Now its a bank branch that closes at 5 and is often taken over by drug people after that. The tone of the area is grimy and menacing now. Did not used to be. There’s no way an open corner florist could survive that corner now. Drug people would rob it blind or just wreck the flower displays.
Joy Hollinsworth is a lot better than Sawant but she’s only one voice with a full plate. Seattle continues to degrade into drug and crime while whole groups of Progressives cheer the criminal justice reforms that let repeat felons out without bail.
Just new normal.
” … the Gun Violence Reduction Unit”
lol, only in Seattle. The problem isn’t as simple as this PC name implies.
WTF Seattle…just about daily shootings now? No, this is not, nor ever should be ‘normal’.