Tag Archives: nagle

Remembering Capitol Hill and the Central District’s victims in Seattle’s record year of homicides

Posted on by
Reply

A memorial to Nakawa Beasley near 25th and Union

Along E Union in 2023, you could find people coming and going on their way to new restaurants, bars, shops, and an art center that have joined the neighborhood’s new development. You could also find a collection of flowers, keepsakes, and photographs remembering Nakawa Beasley, the 45-year-old gunned down on the street in a September driveby.

Beasley’s killing will be part of what has been an exceptionally deadly year in Seattle with homicides reaching a new high with more than 70 recorded in the city. The rate has jumped from 4.3 murders per 100,000 people five years ago to 9.6 in 2023 as surging gun violence has continued to rise after spiking during the heights of the COVID pandemic.

The areas around Capitol Hill and the Central District have not been especially violent in comparison with the rest of the city. The East Precinct has been responsible for about 17% of the city’s homicides over the past five years. This year, the precinct will account for around 13% of the city’s record total.

But there was a clear center for the East Precinct’s deadly violence in the year. Continue reading →

SPD investigating Cal Anderson stabbing and pepper spray incident — UPDATE

Posted on by
5

Seattle Police found two people injured and bleeding after an altercation and stabbing on the west edge of Cal Anderson Park along Nagle Place Wednesday morning.

Police were working to determine the circumstances and were told the victim in the stabbing was able to pepper spray the assailant who reportedly fled to Broadway.

According to emergency radio updates, SPD found one person with a laceration to their face near the Cal Anderson reservoir pump house and another on Broadway suffering from a shot of pepper spray to the face and injuries to his hands. Seattle Fire was called to treat both men just after 8:30 AM.

The area along Nagle and Cal Anderson Park has been an ongoing problem for law enforcement that community groups identified as a “drug market” in need of public safety changes after a double homicide on the street earlier this year.

UPDATE: SPD has posted a brief on the incident:

At 0836 hours while assisting Parks Department in Cal Anderson Park officers heard someone yell from the west side of the park that they had been stabbed. Officers ran over to the male victim, he was bleeding from his face and head, and he pointed up the stairs to Broadway. He said that the suspect ran up the stairs. Officers gave chase and found the suspect in the business at the top of the stairs. The suspect was placed into custody without incident and was treated by SFD for pepper spray from the victim. The victim was treated by SFD on the scene and was transported to HMC for his non-life-threatening injuries.

 

PLEASE HELP KEEP CHS PAYWALL-FREE!
Subscribe to CHS to help us pay writers and photographers to cover the neighborhood. CHS is a pay what you can community news site with no required sign-in or paywall. Become a subscriber to help us cover the neighborhood for as little as $5 a month.

 

 

‘Drug market’ — Deadly shootings bring new urgency to community group’s calls for changes to west side of Cal Anderson Park

Posted on by
Nagle Place

Nagle Place

It is not known what progress the Seattle Police Department has made identifying suspects or a motive in the shooting deaths of brothers Ray and TT Wilford but the murders have brought new urgency to a Capitol HIll community group’s efforts to address safety and worries about drug dealing on the west side of Cal Anderson Park.

The Cal Anderson Park Alliance was already in the midst of a survey process to collect feedback about Nagle Place, the street that runs along the west edge of the park that has been given over mostly to parking and street disorder despite nearby development rising above it, when the latest shootings happened.

“For years, it’s been obvious that much of the violence in the park is related to the drug market on Nagle and the west edge of the park,” the CAPA group said in a statement to CHS in the wake of the deadly Saturday night that left 33-year-old and 29-year-old brothers dead. Continue reading →

Two killed in Nagle Place shooting identified, police still looking for ‘fourth man’ who reportedly fled scene — UPDATE: TT and Ray

Posted on by

(Image: CHS)

Family and friends say the two men who were shot and killed Saturday night along the west side of Cal Anderson Park were brothers.

The King County Medical Examiner has identified the men as Raylando Wilford, 33, who died of multiple gunshot wounds, and Terrance Wilford, 29, who died from a gunshot wound to the chest, investigators say. Loved ones called them Ray and TT.

CHS reported here on the deadly Saturday night shooting that left victims strewn across Nagle Place next to the busy skateboard and basketball courts area of the park. A third man remains hospitalized after being taken to Harborview with critical injuries suffered in the shooting.

Seattle Police are still looking for a fourth man. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Caring for Capitol Hill just wants to clean up Cal Anderson Park

Posted on by

With reporting by Alex Garland

You might forgive Seattle residents circa 2023 for being a little skeptical. Some community efforts in the city reek of politics and preying on the city’s least fortunate to make the case for crackdowns and arrests.

But Caring for Capitol Hill is no Safe Seattle or any of the other groups in the city that have emerged from the pandemic mixing public safety activism with volunteer efforts.

Sunday, CHS found volunteers with the loosely organized Caring for Capitol Hill group working with neighbors and a few representatives from nearby businesses and buildings to clean up the area around Nagle Place and Cal Anderson Park. Continue reading →

Police: Capitol Hill shooting self defense as late night Cal Anderson basketball player says attacked over ‘significant amount of cash’ — UPDATE

Posted on by

Police say Sunday morning’s shooting that left one victim injured on Capitol Hill was a reported act of self defense during a street robbery at the Cal Anderson basketball court.

According to the Seattle Police report on the just before 5 AM incident, the shooter told police he fired several rounds “into the ground to scare the robbers away” as he was being mugged in a strong-arm robbery attempt. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill’s new Limited Edition Sushi will have nearly unlimited seating from your place to Cal Anderson Park

Posted on by

(Image: Limited Edition Sushi)

(Image: Limited Edition Sushi)

Portability is part of the deep history of sushi. Saki Tsukasaki’s soon to open Limited Edition Sushi on the edge of Cal Anderson Park will be a celebration of that mobile efficiency with “premium omakase” boxes to go.

After months of watching the Seattle restaurants scene be upended and spun around by the COVID-19 crisis, Tsukasaki hopes Limited Edition will be part of an enduring trend of delivery and takeout demand for meals on Capitol Hill.

The takeout-focused sushi joint will also have pretty amazing “patio” seating options. It is taking over the space formerly home to the Cure charcuterie and cocktail bar on Nagle alongside the western edge of Cal Anderson. For now, Cure lives on inside the Remedium Grill, the Hawaiian and Filipino BBQ restaurant now resident at 15th and Pine.

Tsukasaki says the plan for Limited is to focus on its omakase boxes with plans for private dining options and subscription services down the road. Limited will also have sake options on offer to accompany their boxes. Continue reading →

Hawaiian and Filipino BBQ, cocktails, and a probable goodbye to Cal Anderson — Cure expands with Remedium Island Grill at 15th and Pine

Posted on by

(Image: Remedium Island Grill)

An opportunity for expansion in a big, new space only blocks away on Capitol Hill will be a welcome change for Nagle Place cocktail and charcuterie bar Cure after a year of tear gas around Cal Anderson Park and business survival amid ongoing COVID-19 restrictions on bars.

Now at 15th and Pine, the brothers behind Cure have opened Remedium Island Grill, a Hawaiian and Filipino BBQ taking over the space formerly home to upscale Japanese joint Naka Adana. Cure will put the upper bar space into motion as a new home as it likely says goodbye to Nagle and Cal Anderson Park.

“Since March 15th and Inslee’s bar closure mandate – to the scattered phases, tear gas at Cal Anderson, the creation of CHOP and more, we’ve been pulling through as a family and small business as best we can,” owners Sean and Joe Sheffer say in their announcement.

Adana, from chef/owner Shota Nakajima, closed in March as the early waves of the pandemic slowdown hit the food and drink industry. Continue reading →

Police announce arrest in weekend Capitol Hill fatal stabbing — UPDATE

Posted on by

Seattle Police announced they have arrested a suspect in the weekend fatal stabbing of 25-year-old Rayshauna Webber on Capitol Hill.

“Detectives arrested a 50-year-old man Wednesday afternoon in the city of Tacoma in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 25-year-old woman on Capitol Hill,” Seattle Police said Wednesday.

Police say detectives are now interviewing the suspect and have not publicly identified the man. SPD says he will be booked him into King County Jail for investigation of murder.

UPDATE 8:57 PM: Seattle Police said Wednesday night the murder of Webber apparently came in a dispute over a spurned offer to light a cigarette. Deputy Chief Marc Garth-Green provided new details from the case in a Wednesday night media conference and identified the man taken into custody for the murder.

“Due to outstanding work with patrol officers on scene that evening, diligent work with our homicide detectives and our real time crime center detectives, in conjunction with help from local businesses in the area, we were able to identify, locate, and, today, with the assistance of the Tacoma Police Department, we were able to arrest 50-year-old David Nichols for the murder of Rayshauna Webber,” Garth-Green said. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Historical Society | Nagle Place created this month in history

Posted on by

On November 15, 1899 — one hundred and eighteen years ago this month — Nagle Place was dedicated by the Seattle City Council in ordinance 5630.

Where it’s at

Nagle Place is among the shortest streets in Seattle. It’s bounded by Pine Street on the south and Denny Way on the north, just three blocks long. It’s intersected only once, by Howell Street. The former Olive Street right of way brings a staircase down from Broadway which continues as a path through Cal Anderson Park to the east.

Nagle Place in the 1980s

Nagle Place in Kroll Map book at Seattle Public Utilities Engineering Vault, apparently updated through the 1980s

What’s a Nagle?

John H. Nagle came to Seattle in 1853 as the pioneers were first staking their land claims and filing “plats”, the first official maps of roads and property to be sold. The land that Nagle claimed was more than a mile northeast of the main town, centered on current Cal Anderson Park. He built a homestead and he worked a farm on the land.

We don’t know exactly what afflicted him, but in 1874 Nagle was committed to the Washington Territory Insane Asylum, deemed a “dangerous man”. His stay at the asylum was funded by renting and then slowly selling his property. Continue reading →