At least four people suffered injuries and a truck with bullet damage crashed into a nearby hospital after a reported drive-by shooting involving two vehicles overnight at Broadway and Pike.
911 callers reported gunfire in the area just after 2:30 AM where arriving officers found a woman at the scene east of the intersection with a grazing gunshot wound to her head and a man apparently hit in the finger amid remaining weekend nightlife crowds.
Seattle Police say at least two other men were shot in the incident including one who reportedly tried to drive himself to a nearby hospital with gunshot wounds to his leg and lower back and another man reported to have walked to the 15th Ave Kaiser Permanente hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg.
As Seattle Fire was called to the shooting scene, a collision was reported south on Broadway at Swedish Hospital where a Toyota SUV with bullet hole damage had reportedly smashed into the building and a male gunshot was reported being treated at the hospital.
According to East Precinct radio updates, police were working to determine the events that led to the truck being shot up and how it ended up at Swedish including a claim that the Toyota had been stolen and driven to the hospital by a male shooting victim unknown to the owner.
Police were also looking for the black or dark vehicle reported to have opened fire at Broadway and Pike in the shooting.
Earlier in the night, a 911 caller had reported a driver in a black Dodge Challenge was swerving and brandishing a gun near the intersection.
The Seattle Police Department confirmed the incident and said it was investigating a shooting near Broadway and E Pike involving multiple gunshot wound victims who were being treated at local hospitals. SPD later said the medical conditions for each victim varied from stable to serious and none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.
There were no reported arrests.
Early Monday’s shooting follows a July with two incidents of deadly gunfire in the area. A 23-year-old was gunned down early on July 1st in an E Pine parking lot amid Pride weekend nightlife crowds and a 30-year-old was shot and died in an alley in Yesler Terrace early on July 27th.
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a drinky nightlife district always comes with drugs & crime
since the margin on alcohol pays higher rents than coffee & books, there used to be late-night cafes and more to do on the hill besides wreck your brain- blame the property owners
No. Guns are the cause of gun violence. You can’t shoot people without a gun.
It’s not guns, it’s culture. There is millions and millions of gun owners in Washington. The problem isn’t “gun violence” it’s cultures/groups that use guns to promote violence.
Guarantee the shooter/victims were prior felons. So making more gun laws has zero affect on these individuals.
Want to stop gun violence? Lock people up and don’t give them bail when committing a crime with a firearm. It’s easy.
So blame the guns, blame the property owners, blame it’s the big city, blame the lack of affordable housing.. the list for different blames continues go grow and ignores who to actually blame. why can’t we blame the individuals that are using guns to settle disagreements for the mess that we now have?
Because without guns, those individuals wouldn’t be able to commit shooting related crimes that lead to mass injuries or casualties. DUH!
Because there’s so many Individuals doing this that blaming them each discretely each and every time individually doesn’t do anything in figuring out why we seemingly have an Individual problem writ large
Facts
Absurd. I’ve lived on lower Capitol Hill for more than three decades and our “drinky” nightlife district never came with shootouts until very recently. I agree that we used to have several late night cafes and I miss them terribly (I’m looking at you Top Pot and Paradiso!) But this is more of a problem of guns and gangs than booze.
Blame the property owners? How about blaming the drunks, druggies and gun jockeys? There ARE late night cafes and other things to do (duh!). Lots more things than ever before.
Bullshit. You small experienced POS.
I lived on Capitol Hill in the late 80’s and the 90’s. We had drinky nightlife areas then, but nowhere near the violence during those years that there is today.
It’s scary to think people are so hell bent on being right rather than concerned. Back to my latte.
That area has been going from cool and gritty to a little bit sh—y safety wise at times. Good ol city living.
Drug dealers fighting over the lucrative drug market created at Pike and Broadway by decriminalization, depolicing, dumping of criminals out on the streets rather than keeping them in jail, and harm reduction drug policy. Why is this area not included in the new proposal to crack down on drug hot spots? If it isn’t included, the 3rd and Pike and 12th and Jackson drug riff raff that has drifted into Seattle will move up here. What is the plan, Joy?
FWIW, Pike and Broadway and the steps in front of QFC have been clear of addicts recently. I imagine it’s bc QFC security has shooed them away. (Not the case yet for the Broadway & Republican QFC)
So now it’s across the street at the streetcar stop… Same intersection with all the same problems.
Who ever assumed Joy had a solution???
Her most recent headlines are emphasizing just how unsuccessful she’s been at implementing any major policies, i.e. her attempt to extend the tip credit to siphon wages from service industry employees, who work for tips, to their bosses. Call me a cynic lol, but IDK how she thinks that won’t add *more* to social decay and gun crime. Inflation is hard on businesses? Blame the dude charging your business an arm and a leg just to rent space…don’t look for extra rent money in your worker’s pay, that’s just gross.
Let me repeat Fed up’s question: What is the plan, Joy?
People on the internet will tell you a tip credit for restaurant workers leads to social decay and gun violence, not open air drug markets and encampments, and they will tell you this with the fury of a thousand suns
“There have been no arrests” what a shock and surprise!
The social unrest of 2020 was a significant factor in new gun sales here in America. People have the right to protect themselves, their family and their property. We can Embrace the Suck, but never sacrifice your freedom for safety.
I want the freedom to walk around without having to be rambo. The government clearly wanted to enable the formation of militias (literally hundreds of years ago) and now we just have millions of scared people with guns they basically think are cool toys that just enable suicide, killing women and being lost or stolen to be used in the countless gun crimes that occur every moment. We are all unsafe because of guns not because we don’t all have guns. Figure it out.
Finger it out child.
Why doesn’t SPD park a cop car (or 2) on that intersection every Friday and Sat night from 10pm-2am? Then they would witness all these shootings in real time and not have to go ask people for help identifying the shooters and cars.
The police have to lay low to perpetuate the myth that there isn’t enough police so they can garner more funding. When their testosterone is at certain levels they get butt hurt and recede only to return when we’ve said “sorry, please come back we need you” enough times. That will happen after the next election.
🙄 Or maybe there’s truly not even actually enough of them to respond to anything that isn’t a call of physical violence in progress… We’re down to near or maybe even below, I believe, the level of staffing they had when I moved here in ’95 and there were long response times then. The population has grown a ton in the last 2 decades. It’s not a surprise at all that there aren’t an extra cops to available to just patrol hot spots.
God forbid they take proactive measures lol
It turf wars. been a regular thing for a few years now
Turf? WTF. Whose streets?
You’re not a player, sucker!
They’re our streets.