For the second weekend in a row, police pushed late night Capitol Hill crowds back inside area venues as officers responded to gunfire in the area.
Early Saturday just before 3 AM, shots rang out from the still busy parking lot above Broadway and Pike. People were seen running from the lot, according to a caller reporting the incident. According to police radio, officers arrived to find a mostly empty lot and three shell casings on the ground.
There was one report of a person who was shot being loaded into a vehicle but no victim was located near the scene. Police stopped a SUV that was reported leaving the lot but we don’t know if any arrests were made. A check of area hospitals was underway.
All information in this report is preliminary and has not yet been confirmed by SPD.
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The late night gunfire follows an incident closer to 2 AM closing time last Saturday morning that brought out a huge police response as officers searched for a gunman in the Broadway parking lot behind Mud Bay and across the street from Neighbours. There were no immediate arrests in that incident.
That being the Bartell’s lot, which is behind my building. Quite a few of us in this building were pretty concerned about it. There were also a few gunshots at around midnight, and I had called in to report a large altercation going on in the alleyway at around 11 PM.
It always feels like the Capitol Hill Block Party attracts all sorts of shit from people who don’t give a crap about this neighborhood. Sometimes I really hate living in the party capitol of Seattle.