A man was found shot in the head and police were looking for a woman reportedly seen fleeing the building after a shooting on the 7th floor of a 17th Ave apartment building Thursday morning.
Police and Seattle Fire were called to the Seattle Housing Authority’s Olive Ridge apartments just before 8:30 AM and began to render aid to the man found down in the building’s hallway, according to emergency radio updates.
UPDATE: SPD reports the man died at the scene.
911 callers reported a possible altercation and at least six gunshots.
Police reported finding blood in the apartment near where the man was found.
SPD was searching the area near the building just north of Madison for the possible suspect. There were no immediate reported arrests.
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As the unfortunate neighbor of an SHA apartment building, this is not in anyway surprising.I don’t know what kind of safety measures or screening process that the SHA have in place, but the cops and the fire department are there at least 2 days a week.
It warms my heart, particularly after the swat team keeps me up all night trying to get shooting suspects out of their SHA run apartment, knowing that my tax dollars are funding this.
Still frustrated with the NIMBY’s in Queen Anne? I am not, I get it.
I am frustrated that the city and SHA continues to see the CD as a dumping ground for housing criminals and then walk away for the community to deal with the fallout.
Don’t blame you. I live near some DESC buildings and they too attract the same clientele both in and out. Fantastic….
My ex-bf lived around corner from a new building that LIHI bought… and the neighborhood went downhill pretty quickly.
NIMBY isn’t always about property values, sometimes it’s about frivolous things like safety and having an enjoyable place to live.
That is not the CD. That is Capitol Hill.
I’ve lived in an SHA funded building, coincidentally for 28 yrs., next to neighbors unfortunately like you. 1. You can’t tell me with any certainty why services visit.You just assume. For instance, about 2 wks ago my bldg was swarming with cops and fire on two separate days because 2 tenants tragically died of natural causes. They looked like your “sieges”. And 2. I see no less activity in the wealth inhabited bldgs that surround me. As much as I hate SHA, study after study, including local, has never been able to establish a rise in crime rates between neighborhoods with or without public housing.
Why do you hate SHA?
Also, agree w/the points you made in your post. Esp #1. It may be that the person who shot isn’t in an SHA resident, so why blame them?
I wish we could like comments – this is the truth. Also – it’s entirely possible that the victim lived in the building and the perpetrators broke in. If this were a luxury condo development, folks would be up in arms that someone was murdered in their home. But in an SHA building, there’s a bias to blame residents instead. No one is saying that security isn’t a priority that should be addressed and that investments in improving these buildings aren’t welcome, but the knee jerk reaction to blame residents actually prevents this type of productive policy by making it seem as if our housing problem is unsolvable.
Not the CD
Move?
I understand. I live in a neighborhood with a few buildings and have befriended a few people that live in a couple of them. They are good people and they are as tired of the activity you describe as those that live near them. According to them it’s very difficult to get bad actors out. Most of their pleas go unheard or unacted upon. Not saying that is the case in this incident but overall the management doesn’t seem very engaged with the people living in these buildings that want the same thing as you, peace and safety.
Guns make it possible.
He was a innocent man who didn’t deserve to get killed by a random woman that definitely didn’t care about him like that.. I pray that the police find out who killed him and they never get outta jail…. My heart goes out to his family especially his son.. I hope they’ll be there for his son because he’s so young and will probably never understand what happened to his dad… :-(
AND YES I AGREE THAT THEY NEED AND ALWAYS NEEDED SECURITY ESPECIALLY IN THOSE APARTMENTS…
REST IN PARADISE MIKE 💔😥🕊️