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Thanksgiving Shooting on CapHill 💥🔫#Seattle pic.twitter.com/8sWp3OcOE6
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- Pike/Pine gunfire melee: Add a bout of early Thanksgiving morning gunfire in the middle of Pike/Pine nightlife crowds to the outburst of recent area gun violence. Video of the incident has been widely shared on social media. According to police, the gunfire broke out as officer were arriving at 10th and Pike to clear a large disturbance involving around 100 people and a possible firearm. As police arrived, shots rangs out and people scattered. Police were able to identify the shooter and take the armed suspect into custody. Two suspect involved the dispute were arrested for malicious harassment. “Due to the volatile nature of the crowd, officers from the West Precinct arrived on scene to assist with scene with security,” SPD’s brief on the incident reads. Multiple gun violence incidents have been reported across the area in the past week including a man shot in the foot on Capitol Hill later Thanksgiving morning, a woman shot in the back inside an E Denny apartment building late Friday, a Monday night shootout at 21st and Union, and a rolling gunfight that left a vehicle flipped on its side at 23rd and Spruce Tuesday night.
- Thanksgiving arson fires: Police say a suspect was caught on camera setting fires to multiple dumpsters in the area around 14th Ave and Pine on Thanksgiving. According to SPD, Seattle Fire was called to a blaze set in a dumpster outside the State Farm office on 14th Ave and found fires had also been set in multiple dumpsters in the area including one that SPD says “caused felony level damage to a nearby residential building.” The fires were quickly put out and there were no reported injuries. Police say surveillance cameras captured the suspect setting the fires but a search of the area for the arsonist was not successful. There were no reported arrests.
- Central District apartment fire: Seattle Fire responded to a fire in a second story apartment at 23rd and Union’s Midtown Center development Wednesday afternoon. Crews were called to the building just before 2:30 PM. Seattle Fire said the fire was contained to the apartment unit and was brought under control by the sprinkler system. No injuries were reported.
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So sick and tired of the guns in our neighborhood. Living right near the pike/pine corridor is exhausting
Americans love shooting other people with guns. Too bad nothing can stop them.
Look, I get you personally don’t like guns, and I don’t either, but let’s be more specific here. The specific Americans who love shooting other people in this instance are gang members.
At last count more than 50% of the US lives in a house with a firearm. We cannot reasonably solve the problems with gun usage by going after all of these people.
Gangs, mass shooters, lone wolves, road ragers, domestic violencers, suiciders or otherwise. It’s always a gun. Can’t think of a single good thing to say about guns really. I guess you could blow someone away with your gun to protect you from their gun. Is that a good thing?
Truth! The vast majority of public shootings is done by gangs. Few people want to admit this because to do so would be considered “racist.”
I don’t like being drunk and gay on capital hill anymore. Its not a neighborhood.
Thanks for the phone numbers and links.
As you have shown, we can all report what we see and hear. We are all citizen reporters. We all want to feel safe in our community, and your blog has become very relevant in this context.
I urge everyone to photograph the faces and license plates and vehicles of all those who threaten our lives and safety.
Don’t fear but don’t put yourself in danger. These punk don’t know who you are.
If you hear a name, remember it. An article of clothing photograph it. Pass it along. Share it. For once, use social media for the good.
We can ID these individuals, because we have resources, and can pass this information along with background.
Hundreds of January 6 folks have been ID’d, captured, and sentenced. We can do the same for the CD.
Let’s shame the city council, the mayor, the cops by doing their job.
Fabulous, totally agree, excellent guidance. This would be worth a blog article of its own, really.
We must get rid of guns. We can’t simply apprehend people after they’ve killed someone with a gun and consider that the society we want.
Agree, but the problem is that such efforts by responsible citizens are cancelled out by the “no snitch” culture in certain segments of our society.
NO WHERE is safe. NOT one place in Seattle, Everett, Lynnwood……pathetic.