A woman was reported shot to death just after midnight in an E Pine parking lot.
In a chaotic sequence starting just before 12:30 AM Monday, police responded to reports of gunfire in the parking lot of Teto’s Cantina, the former Rancho Bravo restaurant at the corner of 10th and Pine across from Cal Anderson Park..
Arriving officers searched the lot before reporting a woman down at the scene and at least one person taken into custody amid crowds of people in the neighborhood during Pride festivities, according to East Precinct radio updates.
Seattle Fire was called to the scene but reported the victim had died of her injuries. UPDATE: “Crews attempted lifesaving efforts for an adult female but were unsuccessful,” SFD reports. “She was declared deceased at the scene.”
Homicide detectives were called the scene. Police were collecting evidence including video from the scene as E Pine was closed to traffic during the response. Police were also continuing to search for possible suspects reported leaving the scene. There were no additional reported arrests.
The Seattle Police Department has not provided details of the shooting or confirmed the killing. Q13 and KING are also reporting the deadly shooting but providing an E Pike location that differs from overnight emergency radio updates.
UPDATE 11:35 AM: SPD has confirmed the homicide investigation but has provided an incorrect location in the brief. Police say they do not yet know what led to the shooting:
Shortly before 12:30 a.m., 911 Dispatch (CARE) received a report of a shooting in the 1000 Block of East Pike Street. Police found a victim on the ground suffering from a gunshot wound. Officers provided aid until Seattle Fire Department arrived. Despite life-saving efforts SFD pronounced the victim deceased at the scene. The circumstances that led up to the shooting are unknown at this time. Homicide Unit detectives responded to the scene and are working to determine the circumstances that led up to the shooting. If anyone has information about this incident, please call SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
Earlier in the night, police were investigating assaults involving someone shooting people with airgun pellets around Cal Anderson Park. There were no immediate reported arrests in those incidents. UPDATE: Police were investigating multiple possibly related incidents involving two males and airguns shooting either pellets or paintballs. Officers were called to Pine and Bellevue around midnight to talk with victims who said they believed they had been targeted in a hate assault in one of the shootings. Police were searching for two males last seen fleeing on Lime scooters in the area of Seattle University.
The killing would represent Seattle’s 28th homicide of the year according to the @homicideSeattle account. In 2023, Seattle marked a record 73 murders including seven victims across the East Precinct covering Capitol Hill and the Central District.
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That is unfortunate.
“unfortunate”? Your compassion overflows.
Very sad. People were out just wanting to have a good time, and some animal does this. Democrats need to begin taking gun crime seriously. Stop allowing plea deals, enforce mandatory minimum sentences for illegal possession of gun, using gun in a crime, violent teens must be locked away until they’re 40, etc. If you don’t do that, but keep restricting gun rights for law abiding you will continue making the problem worse and also force people to vote Republican. Boss Dow Constantine and the WA Democrats have facilitated this crime spike by doing the opposite of my recommendations.
No. Ban all guns now. They’re not protected by the constitution. They’re only freely available because of patriarchal fantasy. Ban them now.
Problem is you’d have to enforce gun laws which would probably mean putting people in jail for violating it so that wouldn’t work in Seattle.
The problem is not the 2nd amendment, but the 4th — searching people and taking their guns. The guns are already out there.
The USA is F’d: guns, idiocy, corruption and a ‘Supreme’ Court hellbent on creating a dictatorial dystopia.
Easier said than done. Paul’s suggestions are much more realistic.
Ban guns? With this supreme court? the Bump Stock supporters! You gotta get real.
100%
YOu attributing it to democrats and not the republicans is interesting. Either way closet conservatives like Sara Nelson and Harrell need to GO.
Some generalization here, but he’s attributing it to Democrats because they’re the ones who are traditionally more lenient on harsh enforcement measures. Republicans, while ridiculously pro-gun, have no issue cracking down hard on those who commit the most minor of street crimes (corporate crime is an entirely different matter). You say it’s interesting he does so…why is that?
No. What’s realistic is people shooting each every day forever if we don’t ban the manufacture and sale of guns over a 10-20 year period.
500mm privately owned guns in this country. Go ahead and ban their manufacture, the bad guys will still be able to get them.
Paul’s comment above is exactly right, there needs to be strong consequences for illegal gun use before getting and using one is just not worth the trouble if you’re a criminal.
People are seriously bi-polar here..
Are you serious Paul – Republicans kill every common sense effort to curb gun violence…
And Jessica… being less left than perhaps you doesn’t make Harrel or Nelson conservatives. To suggest so is ridiculous. This area needs more voices of reason that are neither far left nor far right…
We can neither simply jail our way out of the problems we are experiencing nor be so permissive that consequences for actual serious crimes are negligible. Despite your likely totally opposite suggested methods for coping, both of you would arrive at the same end point and are just racing each other to the bottom.
@paul, please consult this map of population-adjusted firearm mortality by state before making too much of democrats’ gun policies. Thank you. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
Tragic. Guns have no place in our neighborhood, and certainly not around our pride festival. My condolences to friends and family of the deceased.
The precinct is like a block away and stuff like this continues to happen. What do cops actually do?
I’ve read voices from the Left repeatedly say, “Cops don’t prevent crime.” So which is it?
I think this just proved the Left correct.
Its definitely ‘cant even dissuade crime within blocks of their central dispatch site for the area’ as shown by this and innumerate other such crimes. Thats what it is
This old chestnut.
Police aren’t all just sitting in that building, staring out the window waiting for someone who looks like they might be about to commit a crime, so they can swoop down on them.
They are out answering calls for people in emergency (and sometimes non-emergency) situations. So in many instances they may be far from the scene of where a crime is about to occur. Remember, East Precinct is more than just the blocks in and around Pike/Pine and there are A LOT of people that live in the East Precinct and we don’t have near the number of police to support every call.
You want the kind of policing the prevents crime? Then you need one of two things: 1) prescient cops that can see the future (a la ‘Minority Report’) or 2) a cop on every corner. That last one is most realistic but imagine the taxes we’d all pay to hire that many cops?
The hard part about gun violence is that Seattle does not have any better tools than any other city with high rates of Gun Violence. I personally believe that after such a tragedy, there should be a respectful silence, but then I remember, citizens are tired of being silent for the victimes who now have no choice in the matter. Sure gun control. But sometimes citizens are defending their selves, sometimes they are committing a crime. Everyone’s right should not be affected because of the few. Hence why over Turing roe v wade as a law and not a constitutional right is not the same argument. Gun rights are not up for debate. Gun laws are!
The answer is very, very simple: Lengthy incarceration.
Folks talk a lot about the “root causes” of crime. Here’s the real root cause: An extraordinary percentage of people in prison for serious crimes score highly on psychological screens for borderline personality disorder and related antisocial/violent tendencies.
They behave this way because that is who they are, at a deep and fundamental level.
And don’t bother telling me it’s because of poverty. The vast majority of poor people don’t commit these crimes. Violent, selfish, antisocial people do. They are poor because of antisocial tendencies, not the other way around.
Yall cant reconcile that with other Nation States having way less cops, incarceration and crimes itself while having less poverty though. You can try but youll only humiliate yourself more.
Maybe, maybe not. Citations needed.