A shooting in the shopping center parking lot above Broadway and Pike sent one woman to the hospital early Sunday morning on Capitol Hill.
Multiple gunshots were reported coming from the Harvard Market shopping center above the Broadway and Pike QFC around 1:30 AM. Arriving police found vehicles fleeing from the parking lot, shattered glass from a business hit in the crossfire, and blood but no victim at the scene.
As police were still gathering evidence just after 2 AM, Harborview Medical Center reported that a gunshot victim had been dropped at the emergency room 20 minutes earlier by a driver in a grey Mercedes SUV who fled the scene. Police were able to confirm that the victim was connected to the Harvard Market shooting, according to East Precinct updates.
Police were gathering multiple sources of video evidence at the scene. The shooting happened directly in front of the parking lot surveillance trailer installed by the shopping center to deter crime.
The parking lot has been a past magnet for late night violence including this 2019 shooting that left a 24-year-old dead.
The overnight gun violence comes only days after city and East Precinct officials Friday met with neighborhood business representatives and toured areas between Cal Anderson Park and Harvard Market that have become public safety hot spots.
Tuesday, Mayor Bruce Harrell will hold a public safety forum focused on Central District and Capitol Hill neighborhoods as he rolls out a new “One Seattle Safety Framework” focused on increasing the number of police, cracking down on street disorder and drug use, and increased spending on police alternatives including the city’s new Community Assisted Response and Engagement department hoped to provide better, more direct response to issues around homelessness, addiction, and mental illness while allowing police to focus on more serious crimes.
UPDATE: SPD reports the victim was in stable condition at Harborview. Police are asking for help in the investigation:
The circumstances that led up to the shooting are unknown at this time. Detectives from the Gun Violence Reduction Unit will be leading the investigation. If anyone has information about this incident, please call SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
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I stay out of the hill on Fridays and Saturdays during the invasion.
What a surprise! Gangs fighting over who controls the open-air drug markets the city has allowed to form and fester on Nagle by Cal Anderson Park and in front of the QFC on Broadway and Pike. It is an outrage that we donβt have political leaders with the political courage to shut this the f*ck down with a much stronger police presence and arrests for drug dealing and public drug use.
Agree 100%. This is the #1 issue facing the city
What is the property management company doing. The whole complex is a disaster. The corner outside the store, the stairs, the parking lot now.
What do you expect them to do? Hire a private security company like Oak and Iron to patrol 24/7? Pass that cost to the tenants? Why isnβt the solution to hold the City of Seattle responsible for failing to keep citizens and (egads!) property safe from the bad actors that have no issue stealing, shooting, drug dealing, or being a generalized menace at a shopping center? The Broadway Market has many of the same issues as Harvard Market. Open drug use, theft, stabbings, assaults, and just generalized miserableness to be around. Enough is enough, I am so done. I donβt want to be St. Louis or Baltimore or Chicago- I want us to have a higher standard for city living.
I saw the ruckus. It’s simply the worst corner on the hill here.
Pike and Pine have a lot in common with Pine & 3rd its just there is more smoke and mirrors and itβs βnothing to see here folksβ
Shootings only happen because of guns.
We need a lot more guns sitting in prison to reflect upon why they shot someone.
The City should be providing more tax incentives to see more films being shot in Seattle.
And stabbings only happen because of knives. Check out what’s going on in London with stabbings. I get some people don’t like guns (I don’t particularly) but the real problem is the people using the weapons. They need to be in jail with zero bail. That will be a deterrent.
No. The problem is guns. But worse is the problem of no one understanding the problem is guns. Someone in jail after they shoot and kill someone is absolutely not a solution. We cannot allow people to be shot and killed every single day.
The “No Snitch” rule strikes again!