One person was reported shot and police were looking for a possible suspect vehicle in an incident under investigation near Denny and East Olive Way early Tuesday.
Police were called to the scene just before 3 AM where a man suffering from a gunshot wound was reported in front of the nightlife businesses along E Olive Way.
Seattle Fire treated the victim and transported him to Harborview. We do not have information on his condition.
According to East Precinct radio updates, the shooting scene was located around the corner, west of Denny and E Olive Way near Bellevue.
Police were collecting evidence in the street and tracking down security cameras in the area that may have captured the gunfire.
Witness reports described an older model blue van seen leaving the area following the shooting.
There were no immediate arrests.
UPDATE 8:00 AM: Police are calling the shooting a drive-by and say the 26-year-old victim suffered a gunshot wound to his arm. Police said they had not determined what led to the shooting.
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So many guns and nobody will do anything about it. Who are these people and why are they driving here and shooting? This didn’t happen as often years ago, what changed? Who is here now? What has changed over the last 15 years?
Pandemic pushed poverty to a new level. Will only get worse as the system continues to work as designed.
Drive by shootings are not caused by poverty. The overwhelming majority of poor people don’t behave this way.
They are caused by low quality human beings. Remove them from the equation and the problem goes away.
lol, come step to them then Noticer.
I’m not charging into gunfire, but I absolutely do confront people when it’s realistic. I can do this because I’m not from Seattle, I don’t have that passivity/weakness in my genetics.
This can’t be poverty-related shooting. it happened at 3 am. this was either some drunk-related, drug related or some idiots are too coward to settle their beef with their hands.
What changed? We re-imagined policing and criminal justice after the 2020 mass hysteria and Seattle progressive policies laid out the red carpet for thousands of homeless addicts from across the country. The drug dealing gangs now fight over the lucrative drug market in our neighborhood unchecked by police. Seattle progressive voters learned nothing from the failed experiment and now we are about to elect leftists that want to double down on the failed policies that created the crisis in the first place.
So you like lynchings and hate facts.
So the cops failed then? Well? They either quit or quiet quit in job hugging mode.
You are right about that. They got but hurt over masks and people not liking them after federal watch for 12 years? You’d get sick of the cops too. Wait, not you. You want more cops.
“Leftists did not put SPD under feds watch. The cops EARNED THAT SCRUTINY via habitual misconduct. The lawsuits cost the city 10’s of millions. AND? They got a 45% raise over 5 years time!
Give it a rest. progressives didn’t create Covid. Didn’t create the drug markets that are in EVERY CITY! THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM! Red and blue. ALL!
So give it a rest with your 1/2 truths and downright falsehoods. Get educated.
We have had four years of Davison and Harrell turning back those policies and things have only gotten worse
massive drug dens in tents and on the street all over. lock up the users and get them clean, kill the demand.
Cops should be able to search a tent if it’s on public lands. I’ve seen time and time again that when encampments pop up, my neighbors and I see more trespassers coming onto our properties and find more fentanyl users strung out under car ports and in our courtyards. When the encampments get removed, they go away.
I moved off the hill. It’s not worth it. It’s too scary and not what I’m used to at all. I’ll be visiting the blog still but, nope.
I lived in rough hoods in NYC for most of my 20s but I’d by lying if some of the stuff I moved away from 20 years ago isn’t just as bad in Seattle now, even in a “nice” neighborhood like the Hill. Some of the drug stuff is a carbon copy of rough Brooklyn blocks, including the zombies and the dealers waiting nearby and the inevitable violence to police the trade.
The Hill was NOT like this in circa 2011 when I moved here it’s been a slow decline since then and was accelerated by CHOP and Covid.
Seattle is not Brooklyn. The hill is not a burrow. And Washington is not New York. We are not Europe, Paris or some democratic-socialist country that takes care of its people like Paris or Sweden. The reasons why rents were so high on the hill when I was growing up was because it was safe and gay. And if you were on the hill and of color it was because you were most likely gay, and could not kick it anywhere else because homophobia is real of the hill. And now it’s really real on the hill. I hear you, but about your former home, but this is not my former home, well technically it is because fuck Capitol Hill and Seattle is not Seattle.
City and police not doing their job so this continues to happen.
They used to do their job Because they knew some body. Now they don’t know anything. The crime drives in and goes back to a city on the king county sheriff’s now anything about, and that’s just that.