A man was reported shot and killed overnight at Broadway and Pike and police were searching for three vehicles seen leaving the area early Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill.
Police were called to the 76 gas station at the intersection just before 3 AM to a report of multiple gunshots and the cars fleeing the area northbound on Broadway.
Arriving officers found a victim down across the street from the gas station and began CPR, according to East Precinct radio updates.
Seattle Fire arrived to provide treatment but the victim was reported dead at the scene.
Police were searching for the vehicles reported as a possible silver Mercedes and two Dodge Chargers. The King County Sheriff’s Guardian One helicopter unit was reported unavailable to assist in the search.
Broadway was closed between Pine and Union during the response. Police were busy collecting evidence in the area including multiple shell casings found on the northwest corner of the intersection.
The area around Broadway and Pike has been identified as a priority for public safety efforts by the city. CHS reported earlier this month on plans for a new Seattle CARE Department base for crisis responders on Broadway in a commercial space left empty by the exit of a Chase bank from the corner.
The killing is reported as the thirteenth homicide investigated in the East Precinct in 2024.
UPDATE: SPD reports the victim was 29 years old and is asking anybody with information to call 911 or the Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
UPDATE x2: Mayor Bruce Harrell took the unusual step of addressing the deadly shooting in a statement on the killing in the hours before the city’s New Year’s celebrations, promising the Seattle Police Department “will increase evening and late-night patrols in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and other nightlife districts to ensure the safety of all celebrating.”
UPDATE x3: Video recorded from the city’s traffic camera system at the corner shows the gunman lurking behind a utility pole in wait while the victim walks past eastbound on Pike and steps between the hidden shooter and another man crossing northbound. The suspect opens fire just as the victim steps between him and the northbound man. The victim can be seen slumping to the ground as the gunman runs away toward the Neighbours alley and the possible intended target flees the scene.
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Well it’s a darn good thing Seattle prioritized this corner for extra security resources. No telling how many more people might have been randomly murdered there if they hadn’t.
Something tells me this murder wasn’t random – it was related to the drug trade the city has allowed to fester in the neighborhood
Yeah this shooting is definitely related to anything other than the guns our government allows to be allowed en mass in the country.
This is only one bad gun. We can’t broad-brush all the good guns too!
It seems like no matter what major crime happens at this intersection, cars are always involved…maybe we should just cut off automobile access entirely and instead prioritize pedestrian, bike, and streetcar infrastructure through that corridor since it’s one of the busiest pedestrian intersections in the area. Use eminent domain on the 76 because of the nuisance it causes and the untenable transport future it represents. Also who wants to live near a huge explosive hazard like that? Raze it.
And banning as many guns as possible wouldn’t hurt either of course, but I think you’d be surprised how much more vibrant the area would be SANS cars.
Ban all gas stations!!!!!! Lollllllllllllllll
In downtown doesn’t seem like a bad idea
We should shut down the main arterial for buses and the ambulance access to the hospital so that you and your friends can jaywalk during happy hour?
Emergency response generally improves when streets are pedestrianized, or separated bike/bus lanes are built. Cars are what block emergency vehicles the most. So, yes, removing cars from a very congested place is a win for everyone.
You seem to be ignoring pedestrian incidents occurring on closed streets in the same area. Also, 2 wheeled rental EVs can be used and quickly ditched leaving no trail. When motivated, a way will be found.
“When motivated, a way will be found.”
To shoot down anything, even if it’s constructive?
2-wheel rental EVs “Leaving no trail”? Correct me if I’m wrong, but you have to sign up for an account & hook it up to a credit card to use any of those things, no?
People hack them. It can’t be too hard. There’s a group of kiddos- 12-13-14ish that bomb around terrorizing pedestrians in the CD on hacked scooters- you can hear them coming, as at least one has the alarm that goes off when you move one sounding the entire time..
When is the EcoDistrict happening?! Pike and Pine corridor should be public transit only and every 4 way intersection should have raised crosswalks and bumped out sidewaks.
Idiotic.
That 76 station charges tax on ALL purchases. They are running a scam. Nobody cares.
Annnd this is why you should never read the comments…
Why? Cause I shared an idea people who live here agree with??
much worse than that…you “shared”…lol
I was once young and dumb, and I know how this goes.
The police HAVE TO clear this area out every night.
You are parked in the center turn lane? You will be towed! Heck remove all the parking around here since we can’t have nice things.
They let it turn into some stupid “burnout” car show every night and guess what happens?
Huh? What does parking in the center lane have to do with anything?
So another shooting on Broadway in the immediate area deemed one of the most high crime and dangerous intersections in Seattle . Right at the nexus where the New Constellation Center will be opening 2025, serving youth, including services for developmentally disabled. Why locate service delivery for the most vulnerable, in arguably one of the most dangerous and crime ridden intersection of the city?
youthcare.org
https://youthcare.org › constellation-center
Because that’s where the people who need the services are.
Hey Recline, i transfer 3 times on the bus to get to work 5 times a week. Spare me the: “they need to be near services” argument
You think kids and developmentally disabled people are safer transferring on three buses than coming to this corner? The shooting happened at 3am and was clearly gang or drug related. Three cars don’t pull up and empty a clip on a random person.
But if you do not want it there? That’s the narrative you MUST defeat.
Pride Place is already up and running and serving seniors. They deal with this issues on this corner now and nothing is done. 100+ new DESC low barrier units are set to be built a few blocks west, this area won’t be getting better.
what’s that supposed to mean?
” 100+ new DESC low barrier units are set to be built a few blocks west, this area won’t be getting better.”
Oh, honey…
Location and access basically?
Hey Nation; locating a service center, in an unsafe high-crime corner for the most vulnerable demographic…the thought of the developmentally disabled walking on that street, or taking the bus to a street corner, the SPD have described as one of the most high crime areas in the city… something’s not right here?
I don’t know what to tell you Abe, it’s on 5 bus lines, the building itself was in disuse for a couple of years, and there’s a mostly straight shot up Broadway to Madison for any medical/health service needs…
Why there? Because building anywhere outside the city’s urban & industrial cores results in a flaming shitstorm of angry nimbys who will do everything they can to obstruct and block their construction, and our current council and Mayor wouldn’t dare upset a single precious homeowner. Renters don’t matter at all to them.
What’s new the cops show up after and do morning. They’re 3 blocks away. SPD is worthless.
Don’t understand why they don’t just station cops in the 76 parking lot and across the street on BWay southbound every night. Surely we have the money for that, and I doubt the 76 owners would be sad about a regular police presence….
I remember moving here in 2012 & ALWAYS seeing cops somewhere at this intersection, usually by the QFC. I know SPD has lower staffing now but it’s absurd that they now just seem to pretend the corner doesn’t exist until people get literally murdered there.
Not nearly enough of them, which is why response times are at record highs..
It took them all about *that* long to get here this morning. My guess is they heard the shots. I was a block away. Indoors and extra noise insulation with the movie running and it was damn near like they were standing under my window. It was a large caliber weapon. He emptied the clip in short order. The cops were showing up as the shooters were bailing. It was that fast.
The cops know what’s up. I see them trying. Before it was quiet quitting. Today? They seem to be all over it. The differences is stark.
I’m glad to hear that. I don’t know what the fuck with the SPD. I wanna like them, just the same as when I was a kid. But Mississippi Goddamn.
They’re understaffed by about 600 officers. And – half of our neighborhood still wants to obstruct and riot any time SPD shows up. Put that together and you got what we get. An overworked SPD putting resources where they’re wanted, which … isn’t in Antifa’s back yard.
The half of Capitol Hill that wants better policing on crime needs to be heard, regularly, to rise above the noise that our neighbors make regularly complaining about anything and everything they can blame on SPD.
🙄😆Really, half the neighborhood obstructs the police? When was the last time you saw anyone riot? Do you really think cops have such fragile egos to be influenced by a few antifa kids? Be honest, there’s a systemic failure on many levels. There’s zero effort to do any community policing. There are many cities around the world that don’t have these problems, plenty of models to replicate. But stop singing the same old sad song of blame antifa. It’s sooooo 2020.
This week the cops are EVERYWHERE around here after the last shooting. Even bike cops. They are pulling people over even! I have not seen that in a long long time. I’ve seen 2 cars get towed after an arrest too. And I do not get out much. The nightlife has been relatively tame compared to 2 weeks ago. It’s clear that the political embarrassment has become too much to bare.
Exactly! Thank you.
I had cops respond to burglary at my building recently, and they told me that at least that night there were 5 cops for the entire east precinct. I don’t think you can clear a street or do anything other than be reactive with only 5 people.
Oh, please. They say that and then you watch 40 motorcycle cops escorting the Packers bus from the Hyatt to the stadium. Funny how they find the resources when rich people are the ones needing protection.
A guy who goes by PhotogSteve81 was live streaming from the scene on the citizen app said he witnessed it and it was a cold blooded random shooting. They shot the guy in the back he said.
Unless you have more evidence than “a livestreamer said” I don’t see anyway you can know if it was completely random. Maybe they knew each other from elsewhere? Or not? It’s unhelpful to spread rumors, especially about supposedly random murders.
He did not say it was random, in fact it looked calculated and targeted. Here’s his report: https://www.instagram.com/p/DEPtlvQJcxU/?hl=en
PhotogSteve is a grifter scumbag
I thought he’d been Choe Canceled.
I thought Choe was also cancelled to. or has he given up on covering Seattle
I watched this video he had up on Citizen. I have questions.
1- Photogsteve81 was on Capitol Hill at 3 am across the street why? He lives in Maple Valley. Awfully lucky time place to witness a shooting. Just out partying? Staking out a known crime area and got lucky? Why was he there Johnny on the spot. We don’t know, and I believe it could matter in knowing the full picture, because:
2- Photogsteve81 has been shown to be a ridiculous liar in the past. He is embroiled at present with defying a judge’s order to vacate his house as part of a bitter divorce proceeding. His version of events is ridiculously different than the version documented by court records. He basically cannot be trusted, he creates fiction that he himself may even believe. But I would not take his word as authoritative without corroboration.
3- His version of events differed from police’s version on key points. Photogsteve81 said no cars were involved, it was a street ambush. SPD said they were looking for cars in a drive-by. Fog of war is real, these could simply be two snapshots of eyewitness accounts that differed. But it is worth being made aware of.
Basically,in my opinion, Photogsteve81 is a high profile citizen blogger and monetizer who does not have professionally-trained journalistic standards. I would mark down anything he is giving as “potentially uninformed opinion, quite possibly true but not confirmed.”
I heard the shots. Emptied a mag on this person. I looked out and saw the White Dodge Charger and a Black Mercedes heading North on Broadway from Pine.
Whatever he had was a cannon. Not little pew pews’. Sounded like a 45 cal.
When you enter the witness protection program, log on here as grutch biggs and we won’t tell anyone.
I’m literally walking on this corner five days a week, twice a day. Not even remotely scary feeling to me .To be fair… I’m not there at 3am. But I AM there alone at 6:30am and it’s not any more or less sketchy feeling than anywhere else in the city.
I’m not sure anyone’s claimed that 100% of the time this area is a mortal kombat hellscape. So that’s good! People just trying to speak up that they’re not at all OK with the recurring violence and trouble here.
someone above us literally suggested that they need to park a police car at this intersection 24/7 so…
I walk by this corner almost daily and one of those “not even remotely scary days” *11am* some dude didn’t like the way I looked and came after me and tried to take me down by the neck. I ran.
Ever since I always carry heavy metal water bottle and bear spray with me. Didn’t even bother w/ SPD
What world do we live in? This is not normal.
What can we do to support an agent who works on our behalf, to protect us, to apprehend those who endanger us?
Are we having fun yet?
Are you huffing laughing gas or something? Talk about joker-posting…I know you idolize that weird clown from acid strips in the 90s but you should just chill out a bit man. Seattle is a very nice city, and an incredibly safe city, especially when compared to all other US cities.
The cops are already getting like 20%+ raises while every other city service gets a big middle finger. The cops get plenty of “support” and should only have their jobs simplified, not expanded and promoted to unattainable and unrealistic expectations.
Sky blue, water wet, chHil shares their hate of SPD.
Apparently you are in a lot of pain. And I wish for you the best. Good luck and Happy New Year.
And please, try to have fun,
I hope they got extra patrols tn, with it being near year’s the drug dealers are gonna be banging again on their “turf”
Police need to look at the environment and have to consider “what ifs” that limit their movements. ill avoid areas that have barriers that make it difficult to maneuver. A trolley cannot get out of the way of emergency vehicles. The block of Broadway has multiple cement lane barriers and trolley tracks You can see police heading south on Broadway turn on Pine and get back on Broadway at Pike. That’s why the dealers hang out in the Mudbay Parkinig Lot.
Joy Hollingsworth and some businesses put together a safety plan for this block. Unfortunately none of the people working on the plan are here after 6pm. NO residents were invited to these planning sessions. The businesses weren’t even nearby.
What is wrong with this picture?
Joy and the mayor should be sentenced to hang out at their intersection after 2am every night until they get it together
Having trouble discerning who was a target here. SPD says vic wasn’t the target, but the other ped seems out of the direct line of fire, even though the perp’s hiding behind the pole seems to be oriented toward that other ped. Weird. Bad aim? Gang initiation not caring who the vic was?
Tragic for the vic. These immature airhead punks need to remember Omar’s admonition, “Hey, I ain’t never put my gun on no citizen!”
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it was a gang initiation based on the security footage.
I thought the same thing. The aim was way off.
The truth is 90% of the violence in the area is drug related and it’s the drug dealers walking around strapped. Get these junkies out of the area and watch the violence disappear.
I agree that we need more good cops, that will actually bother to do thier job. BUT… Strange how the police have time to go to gay bars and take pictures of men in underwear just a couple blocks from here. I have been nudged out of the crosswalk with the walk light, and a no turn on red, and looked and yelled at the cop on the other corner and just get shrugged shoulders. They did not even respond to me flipping them off for not caring.