The King County Prosecutor’s office has announced it has charged the suspect in Saturday’s deadly stabbing on the Capitol Hill Station train platform with second degree murder and intimidating a witness.
Shawn Patrick Moore, 26, was jailed following his arrest Monday by a U.S. Marshals task force that tracked him down in Eatonville.
Police and prosecutors says Moore killed Corey Bellett in a fight sparked when the Harry’s Fine Foods chef brushed by Moore and another man on the light rail escalator as the restaurant worker was on his way to catch a train home after a Saturday brunch shift. Continue reading →
11th and Pine was the battleground for some of the most intense clashes between police and demonstrators during the CHOP occupied protest. Four years later, it will be the turf of two warriors of the fast-casual restaurant start-up struggle.
Salad chain Sweetgreen has made a splashy start of its preparations to finally open on Capitol Hill with signage and posters plastered across the corner’s windows some three years after CHS first reported its plans for 11th and Pine. Continue reading →
CHS has been working on a larger story we hope to publish soon about the problems and what the city is going to do about them — but here’s a quick Bike Everywhere Day boost to the calls for city leaders and the Seattle Department of Transportation to act immediately to address the half-baked safety measures around the partially completed changes making Pike and Pine into one-way streets between Capitol Hill and downtown and the new bike lanes installed as part of the project.
CHS reported here on the construction challenges for the area from the project underway between I-5 and Bellevue Ave wrapping up 18 months of scheduled work changing the streets to one-way vehicular traffic and installing new bike lane protections.
Those challenges have now transitioned into day to day use challenges as the new traffic flow has opened and bicyclists are funneled into the designs despite missing signs and construction equipment blocking lanes. Continue reading →
A family narrowly escaped and two firefighters were injured as they were able to save the structure after a fire broke out Thursday evening in a 129-year-old apartment building part of a historic commercial row along 25th Ave S.
Seattle Firesays firefighters at nearby Station 6 noticed smoke coming from the 1895-built building in the 2600 block of S Jackson around 5:45 PM: Continue reading →
While many Seattle arts organizations were hit hard during the pandemic, eXit SPACE School of Dance took a leap of faith, investing in a theater space on Capitol Hill — now the lively and flourishing NOD Theater.
Celebrating its 20th year next season, eXit SPACE began in a 900-square-foot space and now spans three studios including 12th Ave’s NOD Theater and offers over 80 classes a week.
“This space was so meaningful to our community for decades, and it was important to us to keep it open and accessible to the arts in Seattle.” said assistant director Karen Baskett.
Seattle Public Schools is holding a series of community meetings to present its plans to shutter 20 elementary campuses across the city to address budget woes and, the district says, establish “a new foundation of stability and consistency that our students and staff need to thrive.”
The meetings will take place throughout May and June. The meeting for communities around the Central District and Capitol Hill has been scheduled, surprisingly, on Memorial Day weekend:
“Our goal is that all schools would include the elements that many of our families, staff, and students said were important during the Well-Resourced Schools Engagement Sessions last fall and earlier this spring,” SPS chief of staff Bev Redmond writes.
CHS reported here on the Seattle School Board’s vote approving a plan from superintendent Brent Jones to consolidate the system’s elementary school campuses from 70 to 50 based on the district’s “Well-resourced Schools” framework it says has been shaped by public feedback and establishes a base level of resources that should be available on every campus including the number of teachers per grade level and additional resources like “education intensive service classrooms.” Continue reading →
As a coalition calls on city officials to do more to address safety and drug crimes around the core of Broadway, Pike/Pine, and Cal Anderson, the nonprofit formed to help maintain and improve the beloved but challenged city park is looking for someone to fill a new role to keep the public space active and fun for every type of visitor.
The Cal Anderson Park Alliance has announced it is hiring a manager for a pilot activation program that it hopes will bring events and activities to the Cal Anderson Shelterhouse and the nearby Cathy Hillenbrand Community Room located in the Station House affordable housing building above Capitol Hill Station just north of the park. The program will also help keep the AIDS Memorial Plaza above the station busy with activities beyond its role hosting the weekly farmers markets.
CAPA says the Activation Manager will “coordinate community use and programming of these spaces, as well as Cal Anderson Park and the Capitol Hill Station Plaza” working with community members, the CAPA Board, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Seattle Parks Foundation, and nearby property management to coordinate activities and the use of the park and community spaces.” Continue reading →
Hundreds of supporters won the right to “Keep Denny Blaine Nude” last year and push back on a misguided attempt by Seattle Parks to add a children’s play area at the popular clothing optional hangout on the shores of Lake Washington.
Now Seattle Parks is hoping to codify Denny Blaine nudity and shape a policy supported by the residents of the park’s affluent neighborhood and the thousands of visitors who make the park part of their Seattle summer rituals.
The department will hold a meeting Thursday night on its proposed policy updates for the park that would specify and protect the importance of being nude at Denny Blaine while also creating two zones within the green space with hopes of providing a better experience for neighbors living near the busy parks property.
It is already legal to be naked anywhere in Seattle. The city’s archaic lewd conduct law crumbled thanks to a 1980s couple who got busted skinny dipping at Madison Park Beach and successfully sued City Hall. Continue reading →
No word, yet, on how the new deal will change the Seattle Police Officers Guild’s “Seattle Public Safety Index”
With reporting by Hannah Saunders
The Seattle City Council voted 8-1 Tuesday to approve a new contract agreement with the city’s police officer union that leaders including Mayor Bruce Harrell and Chief Adrian Diaz says will boost salaries and morale as the department struggles to hire more officers. Council members voting for the contract also said Tuesday the deal will adding limited new oversight resources and move more public safety work like handling automated traffic tickets and property damage to civilian teams outside the department to help focus officers on the city’s most serious crime needs.
Public Safety Committee chair Bob Kettle said prior to Tuesday’s vote the key to the contract is improving SPD staffing levels, and that the agreement shows a commitment to both SPD and improving public safety. Acknowledged that the contract is expensive and a challenge with the budget deficit, Kettle said Seattle cannot compete in the law enforcement labor market, then it cannot accomplish the goal of achieving public safety.
“This is not done. This will continue. This is an interim or partial agreement,” Kettle said. “I have high standards and high expectations for our police department.”
The deal retroactively covers 2021, 2022, and 2023 with a series of raises that will give officers an immediate 23% boost in pay. Continue reading →
A memorial has grown outside Harry’s Fine Foods (Image: CHS)
(Image: CHS)
The Capitol Hill chef stabbed and killed in an altercation on the Capitol Hill Station light rail platform Saturday has been identified as Corey Bellett.
The 37-year-old died of injuries suffered in the stabbing on the subway platform 200 feet below Broadway.
Seattle Fire responded to provide emergency aid to the victim and transport him to Harborview but Bellett succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
Seattle Police were unable to immediately locate the suspect seen on Sound Transit security video fleeing with knife still in hand following the just before 6 PM assault. The department announced an arrest in the case Monday night after a U.S. Marshals task force tracked down the suspect and took him into custody in Eatonville earlier in the day. A hearing to determine probable cause and to continue to hold the 26-year-old in jail was scheduled for a Tuesday hearing.
Bellett — A fundraiser has been set up to help the victim’s family
Prosecutors say Shawn Patrick Moore will remain jailed on $3 million bail and a charging decision in the case is expected Thursday. The county prosecutor says Moore has not been charged by its office previously.
In the documents filed for the bail hearing, police say video evidence shows the victim brush by the suspect and another man as he moved down the station escalator Saturday evening. Police say the suspect and the man accompanying him then confronted Bellett on the platform and a fight ensued in which it appeared that Moore pulled a knife from his pocket and began stabbing Bellett. Police say Bellett fell onto the northbound track where Moore allegedly continued the assault before fleeing the station.
Police say the second man later contacted police to provide information about the suspect. Continue reading →
The King County Prosecutor’s office has announced it has charged the suspect in Saturday’s deadly stabbing on the Capitol Hill Station train platform with second degree murder and intimidating a witness.
