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Man hit by driver in November collision on 23rd Ave died of his injuries

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A man struck by a driver in a “significant impact” collision while crossing busy 23rd Ave in November died of his injuries, according to state records.

The Washington State Patrol says Mario Osoteo died in the days following the Monday night, November 27th collision.

Seattle Fire and Seattle Police responded to the scene along 23rd Ave just south of E Madison where the man was struck by the northbound driver while crossing behind the nearby Safeway just after 5 PM. The victim was struck in a “high impact” collision and was found unconscious and bleeding heavily by arriving responders. According to emergency radio updates, the victim suffered leg fractures and other injuries in the crash. Seattle Fire transported him to Harborview where he later succumbed to his injuries.

The driver remained at the scene and was interviewed by police in the area that can be busy with traffic, restaurant and grocery delivery vehicles, and people crossing near the supermarket. According to city records, the license plate of the vehicle indicated the car was a four-door Toyota sedan. At the time, police said there were no signs of impairment. CHS is not aware of any charges related to the incident.

Osoteo, who has been a past Seattle area resident and has family in South King County, would have been 47 in December.

Earlier this year, the city completed a six-year overhaul of 23rd Ave to make safety and transit improvements along the heavily traveled route between the Central District and 520.

 

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No injuries reported as SUV flips during Central District rolling gunfight

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There were remarkably no injuries as a rolling gunfight left shell casings and bullet damage across several blocks around 23rd Ave and Spruce Tuesday including a Chevy Yukon the flipped during the shootout.

911 callers reported dozens of shots fired just before 4:30 PM as at least two vehicles were reported in an exchange of gunfire near 22nd and Cherry.

Police were soon called to 23rd and Spruce where a 911 caller reported the flipped Yukon SUV and a person fleeing the vehicle with a gun. Police reported the at least one bullet hole could be seen in the vehicle’s windshield. Continue reading →

‘Significant impact’ on 23rd Ave — Man hit by driver suffers serious injuries

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A pedestrian struck by a driver in a “significant impact” while crossing 23rd Ave suffered serious injuries Monday night.

Seattle Fire and Seattle Police responded to the scene along 23rd Ave just south of E Madison where the man was struck while crossing behind the nearby Safeway just after 5 PM.

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City Council gives Acer House development rezone OK at 23rd and Cherry

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The Seattle City Council Tuesday signed off on a surgical rezone in the Central District that will allow the “Afrofuturist”-styled Acer House apartment development to move forward at 23rd and Cherry.

Tuesday’s vote to rezone seven parcels of land at the corner clears the way for the project to build to 55 feet instead of the 40-foot limit the properties are zoned for. Under the zoning where the Acer House building will stand, the allowed height is only 40-feet. However, in the commercial zone to the east, the higher limit is in place. Continue reading →

Central District’s Wood Technology Center gets ‘skilled trades careers’ boost from Lowe’s

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A WTC Student, Alumni, and Industry Partner Demonstration at the Seattle Colleges Board of Trustees last year (Image: WTC)

As budget concerns continue to ripple through education and Seattle’s city college system, a corporate gift will help the Central District’s Wood Technology Center as part of a national campaign to boost skilled trades careers.

The Lowe’s Foundation has announced a $750,000 gift to the Seattle Colleges system’s 23rd Ave facility that officials said to add staffing at the center, “particularly for student recruitment, retention and outplacement.” The funds will also support a site manager to coordinate center logistics, “which will become increasingly complex as programs grow in coming years, partly through this grant.” Continue reading →

Seattle Fire rescues injured worker after fall on roof at Garfield High

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A capture from a video of the rescue (Image: James E. Lynch, III)

Seattle Fire rescued an injured school maintenance worker from the roof of 23rd Ave’s Garfield High School Thursday afternoon.

According to Seattle Fire and radio updates, the call began around 3 PM after the worker was reported to have hit her head in a fall and was unable to navigate her way off the top of the three-floor school.

Multiple Seattle Fire units responded including aerial rigs part of the department’s “rope rescue” response. Around 3:20 PM, SFD reported the patient was being lifted down off the roof using a stokes basket on the east side of the school near the football field.

Seattle Fire said the woman was is in stable condition and was transported to a hospital for further care.

The scene was being cleared including multiple Seattle Fire vehicles as school let out for the day.

 

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911 | Teen shot in chest in MLK Way drive-by, explosions reported at Belmont Place encampment fire

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  • Teen shot in drive-by: A 17-year-old was shot in the chest and an address error delayed Seattle Fire’s response in a reported drive-by shooting early Friday morning on MLK Way. Police were called to the 1100 block of MLK Way South just before 1 AM Friday to the reported shooting and reported finding evidence of a shooting involving a 9mm handgun. Seattle Fire units were dispatched to the scene but were first sent to an incorrect address in the 1100 block of MLK Way — 1.3 miles north of the incident. A similar error occurred in the response last October to the shooting on MLK Way that took the life of neighborhood business owner D’Vonne Pickett, Jr. SPD says the victim was shot multiple times and Seattle Fire reported the teen was in serious condition when transported to Harborview by Seattle Fire. There were no reported arrests and we do know have an update on the victim’s condition. The shooting comes as the East Precinct has boosted patrols around Garfield High School following a string of gun violence in the area of the school.
  • Belmont Place encampment fire:

    Thanks to a CHS reader for the picture and report from the scene

    Seattle Fire rolled out a full response to a large encampment fire that threatened a building at Belmont Pl E and Bellevue Pl E Saturday night. According to SFD, the fire did not spread to the nearby structure but residents reported several explosions amid the massive wall of flame from the encampment on a property lined up for long-delayed development. There were no reported injuries.

  • Fatal 23rd Ave crash: A 57-year-old woman died Friday afternoon in a single-car crash at 23rd Ave and Judkins. Seattle Police say witnesses to the just after 4:30 PM crash reported the driver appeared to try to beat the intersection’s red light and overcorrected, “causing the vehicle to leave the roadway and impact a tree.” SPD said the southbound lane of 23rd Ave was shut during the investigation.
  • DUI driver strikes cop car: East Precinct officers had an easy time tracking down a suspected DUI driver after an early Tuesday morning crash smashed up a police patrol car. SPD reports officers inside the precinct headquarters at 12th and Pine heard the loud crash outside the building and saw the suspect vehicle turn onto E Pike after swiping into the police cruiser. Police tracked down the driver and placed the 25-year-old woman under arrest for suspected DUI and hit and run.
  • Smoky Sunday carport fire: A column of smoke that rose above Capitol Hill on the early evening of Sunday, May 28th came from a car fire in the carport of a 1700-block Summit Ave building. Seattle Fire says its units were able to quickly extinguish the blaze but not before it sent a cloud of thick smoke above the neighborhood.
 

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Increasing concern about area gun violence shuts down Garfield High School campus

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Garfield High School (Image: Seattle Public Schools)

Concerns around an afternoon shooting in a reported First Hill street robbery a mile and a half away from the Central District campus appear to have been behind the closure of Garfield High in the middle of the school day Thursday as officials are on edge after a series of recent shootings around the school.

Officials say they will hold a campus safety meeting with families next week.

Seattle Public Schools says its officials decided to close the 23rd Ave campus and send students home Thursday at 2 PM and keep the school closed Friday “out of an abundance of caution” and were “investigating a threat to the area that could affect the school’s standard dismissal time.”

“Today, we closed school early due to threats that appeared to be related to dismissal time and after school. Seattle Police Department and SPS Security were on campus and in the neighborhood during our early dismissal,” a message to families from Garfield principal Tarance Hart reads. “No incidents were seen or reported.”

The closure came after what Seattle Police said was a reported street robbery attempt that left a man shot in the leg outside a First Hill Key Bank around 12:40 PM — an incident more than a mile away from the school. According to East Precinct radio updates, the shooting prompted a series of school lockdowns in the immediate area including at Seattle University and also generated at least one rumor of a school shooting at a nearby private school campus. Police investigated and found that rumor unwarranted.

At Garfield, students reported police had already been on the campus earlier Thursday before the First Hill shooting for an unknown investigation.

After the gunfire on First Hill, the decision was made to close the Central District school where gun violence concerns have been heightened after a series of shootings near the Garfield campus. Continue reading →

4,000 without power in Tuesday afternoon outage in Northeast Capitol Hill — UPDATE

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Seattle City Light was predicting a relatively quick turnaround after crews were dispatched Tuesday afternoon to restore power to around 4,000 customers south of Volunteer Park and along 23rd Ave in the Stevens and Miller Park areas.

UPDATE 2:30 PM: SCL wasn’t kidding. The power was reported back on in under 90 minutes. The cause was determined to be cable failure.

The outage was first reported just after 1 PM and though Seattle City Light hadn’t yet specified a cause, the department said it expected crews to have the power back on before 5 PM. Continue reading →

Man and woman who died in 23rd Ave apartment fire identified

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(Image: Community Roots Housing)

The man and woman who died in last week’s apartment fire in a 23rd Ave building for elderly and disabled residents have been identified as Emily Tarter, 66, and Robert Johnson, 64.

The building residents died last Thursday night in the blaze that burned through a third floor apartment in the Elizabeth James House, a 1968-built Community Roots Housing affordable housing building at 109 23rd Ave E. Continue reading →