The 18-year-old shot in the chest and killed in this week’s deadly shooting at Broadway and Pike has been identified and a third victim hit in Thursday night’s chaos of gunfire has been reported after a male suffering from a grazing gunshot wound arrived at Harborview Saturday night.
Police are investigating the bloodshed including possible connections to the homicide last month a few blocks away at 10th and Pike that left a 26-year-old shot to death inside the vehicle he was driving.
Meanwhile, the neighborhood’s representative on the Seattle City Council says officials “owe our neighborhood more than statements or open letters” and has released a five-point plan for “meaningful public safety investments in Capitol Hill and First Hill.”
The King County Medical examiner says 18-year-old Jaydon Jameson died of multiple gunshot wounds in the Thursday night slaying.
CHS reported here on the chaotic just after 8 PM assault at the troubled corner of Broadway and Pike that has been a center of focus for the Seattle Police Department and neighborhood public safety concerns. The shooting left Jameson dead and sent another person hit in the crossfire to the hospital Thursday night. An apparent third victim was reported by the hospital Saturday night.
According to records, Jameson is from Lummi, Washington.
His murder comes only weeks after the deadly slaying of Robert Fleeks in a targeted shooting that left the 26-year-old dead in his gold Chevy Tahoe along 10th Ave just north of Pike after picking up a pizza from 11th Ave’s nearby A-Pizza Mart.
In 2021, Fleeks was convicted of second degree murder for a 2018 Pioneer Square shooting that killed a Suquamish man. Fleeks was 19 at the time of the deadly shooting. The conviction was later overturned on appeal over issues around the defendant’s statements to police.
Police have not publicly linked the cases. SPD has asked anybody with information that could assist the investigation to call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
Officials scrambled heading into the weekend to address the second murder in weeks in the area that has been the centerpoint of public safety discussions for more than a year.
In a press release issued Friday night, District 3 rep Joy Hollingsworth released a five-point plan of “immediate actions” needed to address the slaying and the ongoing safety issues in the area.
The roster leans heavily on initiatives already in motion.
- Consistent Increased presence of the CARE (Community Assisted Response & Engagement) Team and Seattle Police Department (SPD) along the Pike/Pine corridor and throughout Broadway, north and south.
- King County Council to increase its current $1 million allocation for Capitol Hill/First Hill cleanup to $3 million, prioritizing the area near the Polyclinic — the future home of the Crisis Care Clinic.
- Capitol Hill/First Hill Ambassadors — modeled after the successful CID (Chinatown International District) program — to provide consistent and visible presence in the community.
- I will be advocating during budget deliberations for City-sanctioned shelter encampments with bundled access to resources like water, sewer, garbage, electricity, safety measures, mental health counselors, a day center area, and mobile drug treatment facilities. These are not permanent solutions, but they are a necessary first step toward stability and recovery. We must help people move out of crisis and into care.
- Continued environmental design improvements — including lighting upgrades, beautification, and traffic flow enhancements to make streets safer and more welcoming.
The core element in the Hollingsworth release could be spending priorities in the ongoing city council budget discussions. “I will be advocating during budget deliberations for City-sanctioned shelter encampments with bundled access to resources like water, sewer, garbage, electricity, safety measures, mental health counselors, a day center area, and mobile drug treatment facilities,” Hollingsworth writes. “These are not permanent solutions, but they are a necessary first step toward stability and recovery. We must help people move out of crisis and into care.”
SPD, meanwhile, has already increased its efforts at the corner under guidance from Deputy Mayor Tim Burgess and the Harrell administration in response to public safety concerns raised by an October 2024 murder on 11th Ave.
And, in March, the Seattle Community Assisted Response and Engagement Department selected a new First Hill location for its East Precinct “Community Crisis Responders,” its teams of behavioral health officers who respond to 911 calls involving general mental health crisis calls.
In her plan, Hollingsworth also leans on the process around the establishment of the county’s Crisis Care Center at Broadway and Union, calling for an additional $2 million in spending in the $56 million project for “cleanup” of the surrounding area. A second item in Hollingsworth’s five-point plan also is connected to the center plans as recommendations on “lighting upgrades, beautification, and traffic flow enhancements” could be part of a King County Council and Seattle City Hall agreement for a Seattle Police Department-led environmental public safety review of the area.
CHS has also previously reported on Hollingsworth’s proposal around extending a similar program to the $15 million-a-year Downtown Seattle Association’s ambassador program up into Pike/Pine that would put workers onto streets to help keep sidewalks and alleys clean and deal with low level public safety issues. That program could be paid for by fees levied on nearby businesses and properties.
The area around Pike and Broadway and the Harvard Market shopping center has been identified by police as one of the most troubled areas in the city with an unfortunate confluence of petty crime and drug abuse. The Capitol Hill “Stay Out of Drug Area” that includes the corner now leads the city in banishment orders.
Other changes for public safety are coming. In August, the City Council approved a new $400,000 closed circuit camera system to be deployed around Pike/Pine as part of the Seattle Police Department Real Time Crime Center.
Hollingsworth, who has championed the addition, did not include a timeline for the expansion in her statement.
The year started with deadly violence at Pike and Broadway with the December 31st slaying of 29-year-old Jonny Adamow who was shot and killed while walking through the area in an ambush targeting another person. The suspect in that case is awaiting trial.
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We need regular best cops walking/biking this area, or at least a regular car patrol. This after the fact response is not nearly enough. A teenager was essentially executed on the street! I know this is not new, but that is the point. If this corner is routinely identified as the most troubled (and mere blocks from the police station) where is the crime/violence PREVENTION? Rep. Hollingsworth, Mayor Harroll and SPD are failing this neighborhood…and it’s been going on for ages. Do better!!!
No, we do not. I do not want money paying for those rent-a-cops they have all over downtown doing nothing at all.
Edit: I see you meant beat, nvm
I don’t think I have ever seen a cop walking thru the area but there needs to be some proactive measures and deterrence.
A simple car stationed at the 76 at night. Just chill and eat gas station hotdogs with the jelly beans lit. Hell, grab a 6 pack of craft beer too!. I do not care. Sit there, instead of somewhere else. Like the break room. Do reports. Whatever. Text dick pics! I do not CARRRRE!. Just sit there just in case. Look alive. No more. Just keep fogging a mirror is all I am asking. But in your cruiser at the 76 with lit up light shows. An occasional warning over the speaker. Fart in the thing! I do not care! Just do it there!
It’s really that difficult. They do it downtown at Westlake for example. 3rd as well. Pike Place Market same. Waterfront? You guessed it! Same same same same…
So if it’s proven to be the most effective means of security/deterrent? Then why the MRAP and small army from the Sheriff then? Because that is needed apparently?
Proper policing is exactly what I am saying. The ‘ol Dutch boy and the dike. You put your finger in the leaky hole to stop the flood. Except we got thousands of fingers. One needs to plug the whole hole at the QFC.
I can’t understand why that photo op didn’t stop gang violence in it’s tracks!?
Bruce and the cop chief said they won’t be quiet when Trump’s goon squad gets here! And strong executive orders to not release the city surveillances systems to the federal govt.! We are safe as any city on the planet now!
I mean this is our master plan under the current leadership. They don’t have a plan other than political fig leaf. Meaning one. Not plural.
After reviewing the facts? You need to be chief of police. I think you’d make a difference. And not spend your time laughing at the George Floyd tombstone in the break room with the other lemmings.
You deserve that 1/4 million a year. Not them.
I have lived in this neighborhood long enough that I actually remember cops that would walk the neighborhood and actually know people. Logically, this also helps them get a sense of what’s happening in the neighborhood. It can build trust too (much needed with E Precinct).
None of this will prevent drug and gang turf warfare. These items are not going to help people coming from out of town to stir up mayhem.
Per usual Hollingsworthless doesn’t do anything meaningful. Sits on the fence playing both sides but ultimately favors in the fascist solution. Burning money we don’t have on a little fake rent-a-cops.
The only input is from businesses. Despite multiple requests residents have been EXCLUDED from any planning. Residents are not even informed as to what is happening. Residents see what is going on 24×7.
We have renamed the block from Pike to Pine on Broadway as “Kill Hill.”
The CHCC I believe may have some communication? Not positive though.
“We”?
There has been ZERO outreach to businesses. I had someone shot in front of my business, and no outreach. Last year, someone was stabbed outside my business, and blood was all over the front door. No outreach. Businesses have been calling, writing letters, and showing up at council meetings in increasing numbers over the last year in hopes of getting some help and attention for the neighborhood. If you are appalled by this lack of governing, show up and speak up. Not just one time, every time. No one has time for this, but it’s the only way City Hall will stop pushing downtown problems up here and leaving us to fend for ourselves. CM Rinck posts all over her social media about changing a bus line on Capitol Hill. How about using some of her political capital to focus on the real issues we are facing, please?
Most of the downtown ambassadors really don’t do anything but make tourists feel safe. Most of the time I see them leaning against the wall or something talking on the phone. Talking to friends. I don’t really see them being proactive and engaging. I’m sure there’s a few exceptions
What I don’t get is why everybody thinks the solution is more money, more programs.
How about better parents? How about Community leaders that don’t blame society for this kind of behavior? I have seen the restorative justice programs and it seems like without exception they all defer blame to the criminality of youth to society, poverty, oppression. Never do they accept that they and their culture and their youth are part of the problem
I don’t know what happened with shaming parents. It seems to have fallen out of style here in Seattle. I wonder what it would take for the juvenile laws to change from giving juvenile offenders caught with guns five free passes before they get sent to juvi to just getting caught once. That’d make parents think twice about who their kids hang out with knowing full well that getting caught once as a minor in possession with a gun would result in their kid getting charged and sent to juvenile jail. That would also result in the community shaming them for their shitty parenting skills.
I agree that the most important “root cause” is poor/uninvolved parenting and (often) absent fathers. But what can be done about that?
I see nothing in this plan about removing open drug use from the streets and preventing gang-controlled drug sales in our neighborhood. Useless.
Amen. All the housing and mental health resources in the world will qualm gang bangers and drug turf warfare
*not all
So three people were shot? Who are these people. Who wakes up with this sort of energy. Drug dealers, gang members, drug users!? It really doesn’t matter. This sort of crime is as much a resident on pike/pine as the business. City council doesn’t have a clue on how fix this, just like not a damn doctor has rose their hand and offered a treatment for fentanyl. I say shut it all down and start from scratch. Playing wack-a-mole has always been expensive.
City sanctioned encampments with services and a mobile treatment center? Wow, I’m liking this new energy from our council member, just wish it hadn’t taken 2 years and 3 people getting shot to actually try to do something. I’m also very much looking forward to hearing where she proposes putting this.
Hollingsworth won’t do anything Bruce doesn’t like
She really is the most worthless I’ve ever seen in City Council
NO CCTV
It needs to be more than a statement. Harrell can’t win the election if D3 CM openly opposes him. Joy has a window of 2 weeks to make real change happen and has 2 weeks of ultimate leverage over Harrell.
We’ll see what Joy does