A Seattle Police officer heard multiple, rapid fire gunshots ring out across Pike/Pine early Sunday morning and Seattle Fire treated a victim reported to have been shot in the foot in a second night of gunfire in the area. Meanwhile, police found shell casings and a large crowd following a second reported “assault with weapons” incident in the Central District — but, fortunately, no victim.
In the Pike/Pine incident, police converged on an area near Harvard and Union around 2:45 AM as Seattle Fire was called to treat a male with a reported gunshot wound to the foot outside the west entrance of the nearby QFC. The injury was apparently not serious but we have not yet confirmed details with Seattle Fire or SPD. Witnesses reported at least two vehicles that may have been involved were seen leaving the area of the shooting.
Later Sunday morning, a fight near 23rd and Jackson ended with gunfire in a disturbance just before 4:45 AM. According to East Precinct radio, police arrived to find around 20 people remaining in the area but no victim.
There were no immediate arrests in either incident.
According to SPD data, gun incidents including shots fired with and without victims are up 36% in the East Precinct vs. 2014.
UPDATE: SPD has posted a report on the Pike/Pine incident:
Officers are investigating after a man walking in Capitol Hill was shot in the foot early Sunday morning.
Police Sgt. Michael Renner was standing at the corner of Broadway and Pike St. Sunday morning at 2:45 when he heard gun shots to the west. Additional officers flooded the area and found a man who had been shot in the foot while walking in the 1400 block of Harvard Ave. Officers were also approached by the owner of a car who said that as he sat in the driver’s seat bullets hit his car and lodged in the seat.
Medics took the man who was shot to Harborview Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries. Officers scoured the block and found several 40 caliber and 9mm shells which were all taken in as evidence. Despite an extensive area check, they did not find the suspects.
If you have any information in this case please call the Homicide/Assault tip line at (206)233-5000.
UPDATE 10/5/2015 9:27 AM: Seattle Central officials contacted East Precinct Monday morning to report a possible bullet hole found on the Pike side of the school’s Harvard Ave building.
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The Jackson/23rd shots were the result of some sort of fight at the hookah lounge on Jackson. People piled into cars and drove off. Some right past the police.
And we’re going to reward the owners of these crime magnets by letting them operate legally? This is clown town.
well like it or not, it’s not illegal to have a hookah lounge. we can’t just ban stuff we don’t like. i’m guessing the police are aware of the various hotspots for violence like this and keep an eye out for reasons to shut them down. Remember Deanos?
I thought it was illegal to have a Hookah lounge…or cigar lounge, pot lounge, etc. for years now. Unless the ‘no smoking’ inside bars and restaurants law was done away with very recently.
Well, when Deanos closed the livability within a three block radius went through the roof almost immediately. My god, the before and after around 23rd-25th and Madison/John/Thomas went from Crack Alley to Pleasantville, USA.
Grew up low income and knew a lot of kids in the same boat and of differing races. The ones who go in the direction of doing violence with guns are not representative of anyone or group or socioeconomic circumstances. In British Columbia much of the gang membership is from middle and upper middle class kids who just want what they see as easy money.They are thugs and should be treated accordingly. When you’ve really had enough you’ll ask the powers that be to get serious about them.
WHEN YOU BRING A POLICE CHIEF FROM OUT OF TOWN THAT DOESN’T EVEN KNOW THE NAMES OF THE OFFICERS UNDER THEIR / POLICE GUILD’S COMMAND, IT SAYS THERE IS NO SEATTLE POLICE OFFICER THAT CAN CLEAN UP AND STERILIZE THE SEATTLE LAW ENFORCERS???
IN OTHER WORDS, THE ENTIRE “LAW ENFOCEMENT SYSTEM” IS BIASED, CORRUPT AND VIOLENTLY DANGEROUS??? DOES SEATTLE NEED ALL NEW, UN-INFECTED OFFICERS??? WHAT DOES AN OUT OF TOWN CHIEF KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE AND ITS CORRUPT POLICE GUILD / LAW ENFORCEMENT ESTABLISHMENT, INCLUDING BIASED / CORRUPT, PROSECUTORS, JUDGES AND VIRTUALLY “ALL WHITE JURIES” PAWNED OFF AS ACCUSED BLACKS “PEERS” WHEN THE VICTIM IS WHITE??? HOW MANY ACCUSED WHITES WOULD TOLERATE AN ALL BLACK JURY WHEN THE VICTIM IS BLACK???
WHAT ILLOGICAL NONSENSE IS THIS??? WHY IS THE ROOT CAUSE EUOPEAN COLONIAL SETTLER “JUDEO-CHRISTIAN” GENOCIDAL TERRORISM AGAINST NATIVE AMERICANS / BLACK ENSAVEMENT AND ALBINO WHITE SUPREMACY NEVER MENTIONED OR DISCUSSED???
SO THE ARMED GOVERNMENTT BLUE GANG (READ FORMER SEATTLE POLICE CHIEF NORM STAMPERS BOOK ON “POLICE GANGS”) THAT MURDERED ELDERLY DISABLED NATIVE AMERICA ON CAMERA, JOHN T. WILLIAMS FOR “WALKING WHILE NATIVE” (COWBOYS AND INDIANS) IS INVESTIGATING “GUNFIRE IN AFRICATOWN / CENTRAL DISTRICT”??? WHAT A SICK JOKE??? JUST KEEP LAUGHING AND WISHING FOR PEACE???
YES, “THE MORE CRIME / GUN VIOLENCE IS “INVESTIGATED BY THE ARMED GOVERNMENT GANG IN BLUE, THE MORE CRIME AND GUN VIOLENCE INCREASES”??? IS THE POLICE GUILD AND ITS ORGANIZED CRIME “WEED AND SEED” / CRACK COCAINE / HEROINE POLITICAL OPERATIVES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PAM “DOWNTOWN” BANKSTER,) THE ROOT OF EVER INCREASING CRIME / VIOLENCE AND MASS KILLINGS BY YOUNG AND OLD WHITE OR BLACK MALE MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS OF GOVERNMENT “ENFORCEMENT” AGENCIES???
WHAT ABOUT US GOVERNMENT MILITARY MURDER AND DRONE MURDER OF PEOPLE WORLD WIDE INCLUDING UNARMED CIVILIANS CALLED “COLLATERAL DAMAGE”??? NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE WAS NOT AND IS NOT AN ACCIDENT (ASK NATIVE AMERICAN JOHN T. WILLIAMS FAMILLY)
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why is it you choose to go with the all caps? Is the button stuck? Are you actually yelling as you’re typing?
Seriously this is all rant. Tried to read past that aggravating and annoying all caps and realized that was just a warning that this comment was a waster of time.
Don’t feed the trolls. They know they’re annoying. They know what they’re doing. It’s how they get attention. Ignore them until they learn to act civil, or go away.
Caps lock is generally on the left hide side of a laptop keyboard.
Now THAT’S funny! Great post. Thanks for the giggle.
Capitol Hill has become a wealthy ghetto. Increasing crime, increasing homelessness juxtaposed against new money and all it’s trappings. Gross.
And yet we keep doubling down on the same failed policies that got us into the mess. Seattle voters have nobody but themselves to blame.
If you had actually been to a real ghetto, I don’t think you’d throw that term around so casually. Seattle has nothing even remotely resembling a ghetto. There needs to be a crack down on crime (especially gun related activity), but on almost every metric, livability is still very, very high.
A rumor has come to my attention. A person whose opinions I greatly value is claiming that someone in your esteemed publication is preventing him from posting to your blog. I sincerely hope there is no basis for this allegation. When opinions differ, when the subject is uncomfortable, then, more than ever, is the need that we hear and consider divergent voices, lest we travel as lemmings to our mutual annihilation in our desire to not to hear uncomfortable truths. I hope Capitol Hill Seattle blog is not that kind of fear-uncomfortable-truth, feel-good publication.