Police were searching for multiple suspects in a reported gunpoint robbery near 23rd and Yesler just before noon Wednesday.
Students were briefly put into “shelter in place” status at Garfield High School, Nova High School, Washington Middle School, and Leschi Elementary School, according to Seattle Public Schools.
According to police radio dispatches, the hold-up took place near 24th and Washington and involved three suspects in black and wearing masks covering their faces. There were no reported injuries. A suspect vehicle was seen leaving the scene following the robbery.
The King County Guardian One helicopter was called in to aid in the search.
The suspect was Mayor Murray…he gave 23rd Ave People Of Color LGBTQ Small Businesses woefully inadequate 650k….then jacked them for it this past month with heaps of paperwork, and redirection of resources to Greenwood Businesses and Residents.
While we support Greenwood Businesses and Residents receiving the relief they deserve, we are concerned Mayor Murray may have a hard time keeping his promise to them as well. Hopefully they fair better than we have in Central District.
Did you seriously just use this as an excuse to complain about your business not getting a bailout? This is beyond poor taste.
Did you seriously just use this event as an opportunity to complain about your business not getting a bailout? This is beyond poor taste.
Yes, what happened to 23rd Ave business was unfair and detrimental to the people who work there, but it’s in poor taste to compare that to someone in our neighborhood getting robbed at gunpoint by three masked men. I hope the victim is okay (physically, mentally) and that this doesn’t happen again.
Unfair, detrimental? Let’s call it what it really is:
Gentrification.
You think for a second any of these new 6 story projects are going to have people of color, minority small businesses in them? Hell no they won’t.
Normally I don’t respond to people who hide behind anonymity. If you have something to say, and you really believe it, post it on here under your name instead of hiding.
You aren’t going to get any money cause you can’t prove you ever had any negative business impact. After making one of the stupidest business decisions the area has ever seen, you make up this story about how you have been impacted when you never had any business. The sad part is some of these long term business people who have shown they can run a viable business will look back and wonder why they ever associated themselves with a con artist such as yourself. These other businesses will get help cause they will be able to do what you can’t and provide the required business documentation.
Those of us who have been in the area for a long time, unlike you, are tired of people who choose to settle disputes with violence like you do. Yes, many of us know how you chose to shoot a man in downtown Seattle on a crowded street when you could of just walked away. We know you had the opportunity to leave but you chose to continue to engage with taunts and obscene gestures escalating the situation with children in your presence and then pulled a gun and shot a person. Again, you were away from this person but couldn’t let it go and put children in danger. You are in no position to complain about gun violence when you contribute to it.
Please take your rent-seeking behavior to a tax jurisdiction other than mine.
*eats popcorn*
This is in really poor taste and completely off topic.
I hope the victim(s) are okay and the highschool students for that matter.
Sara mae officially asks for an additional bailouts for her small business, she has lost her last single customer by making inappropriate comments about the serious issue of crime in the central district.
You want to go into crimes in Central District. You know why we have drive-byes and robberies in the area. You may not be aware of this but police presence on 23rd Ave, Jackson, Cherry, and Union have been anemic at best for a long time now.
On 23rd/Cherry alone there have been at least 4 shooting in the past year. You may be wondering why. The police refuse to make their presence known in the area. When people are dealing drugs off, for example, church property on 22nd/cherry, the police are called, the police stroll by a half hour later after everyone is gone.
I know what the Mayor’s office priorities are regarding this area, I’ve seen the vision a number of these so-called ‘community organizations’ in the CD have been pushing on behalf of the Mayor’s Office. It doesn’t include family-owned small businesses. It does include allowing certain areas to go to shit where people decide it’s not worth it to stay.
The Mayor says one thing, and does another. The Mayor says he wants us to live in safe neighborhoods, yet the SPD don’t drive around here much, especially when drug dealing is going on.
But what do I know, I’ve only lived in the CD for 10 years. Mayor Murray is great at photo ops, not so great at taking substantive action.
The fact is if Central District wants to have the ear of the City of Seattle it has to form a cohesive voice amongst neighbors, and businesses…we simply don’t have that here. Is it an insurmountable task, no. It simply isn’t happening though.
If a customer chooses to not come into my business because of one post they don’t agree with, then it’s about them, not me. This is my community, and I will publicly post what’s on my mind when, and where I feel the need to do it.
Shouldn’t you be directing your ire at your representative in the city? The mayor, by definition, has the entire city’s interests in mind at all times, not just yours.
I haven’t seen a cop on my street more than two times in the last 13 years. I also cannot recall one drive-by nor a person to person robbery.
Thanks Sara, I have lived in the CD for 20 years and I have never realized all the issues we are facing. It is great to have someone new to the area here to educate me.
It is because I have lived here so long that I find your claims that your business is failing is due to construction as ludicrous.
I am glad that the mayor is using the money to help businesses that were destroyed in a explosion rather than bailout those with a poor business plan.
I like that we’re calling a much-needed rebuilding of a major arterial street “gentrification” now. It’s only a matter of time before Union is gentrified; who will stand up for the potholes and uneven surfaces that are such an integral part of the neighborhood’s past?
It sucks that the road construction has had such an impact on your business, but please stop trying to frame it as an issue of gentrification and complaining about businesses that LITERALLY EXPLODED getting financial assistance.
Well, to be fair, the roadwork very well might have something to do with the impending construction by Vulcan at 23rd and Jackson, which can definitely be attributed to gentrification.
This is the last straw. I’m giving money to the relief effort in Greenwood and actively supporting small businesses in the CD, but I have no pity for your ill timed business plans and your subsequent self-serving opportunistic whining. I hope you go under. With Tougo, Katy’s Corner, Cortona, Golden Wheat, G.R.E.A.N., Broadcast, QED, Dorothea, Café Weekend, and Cheeky Cafe all in the greater neighborhood it won’t be hard to avoid you. I encourage others to seek out and support other coffee shops in the neighborhood that deserve support: http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=coffee&find_loc=Central+District,+Seattle,+WA
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No further detail on the story? What was taken? Three masked and armed suspects but no mention of what was taken? This is a nightmarish amount of overkill for a cell phone and a wallet. What where they after? Or where they the 15y old perps we seem to too many of in this day in age? On the job training?
Seriously, three masked and armed! For what?