A victim is treated along E Pike Sunday morning (Image: Matt Mitgang)
Police search for evidence following the second shooting on 11th Ave in two nights (Image: Matt Mitgang)
At least two people were shot in a burst of 2 AM gunfire on 11th Ave in Pike/Pine’s nightlife core following a deadly shooting on the street the night before.
911 callers reported 10 or more shots fired just after 2 AM Sunday amid nightlife crowds and groups gathered to remember the victim in a shooting early Saturday morning that left a 25-year-old woman dead.
Police found multiple shell casings and bullet damage along 11th Ave and one woman shot in the shoulder was located after fleeing around the corner in front of the Wildrose where she was being treated by Seattle Fire.
As that victim was transported to Harborview in stable condition, a male victim with a gunshot wound to the leg was reported to have walked into the emergency center. Police reported the male said he had been shot at a memorial for the victim in the Saturday morning shooting, according to East Precinct radio updates.
Officers fanned out across 11th Ave collecting evidence Sunday morning including multiple shell casings including rifle and handgun rounds.
An apartment window was reported shot out and vehicles on the street were reported damaged. Police also recovered security video showing the shooting incident play out on the street’s A-Pizza Mart block and were looking for at least one vehicle identified in the evidence and three suspects captured in the footage.
SPD was also on the lookout for vehicles reported roaming the area with armed occupants following the second shooting in two nights. Police later recovered two handguns stashed in the bushes by one group along Broadway that had been spotted by private security.
UPDATE: In an update posted Sunday morning following CHS’s report on the shootings, SPD says the Sunday morning gun violence targeted a memorial gathering but provided no further details. In the update, police say the second victim is a 29-year-old man. Police are asking anybody with information to call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
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Ok this is enough. This is turning into a mint lounge situation with what it sounds like by the pizza bar. What the heck is going on. I don’t go to that joint anymore for a reason I’ve seen people get violent and now this.
I’m with you Rob. Especially after I read the ‘armed occupants roaming around The Hill’ part. That’s a lot of violence for a queer neighborhood.
It’s a lot of violence for any neighborhood. Doesn’t matter if queer or not.
More gun violence. Must be a mental health gang issue with a specific venue in the area. Can’t possibly be a problem of the wide spread availability of guns. Guess we’ll just do nothing and live in misery.
Yes, this is likely a personal beef issue where individuals solve their problems by murdering another person. Guns are just easy to use. This happens here because of a permissive attitude for violence and anti social behavior coupled with a hatred of the police and government action to inhibit criminality. We are now a come one, come all … we accept everything in the name of forward thinking district. Walk naked, blast music at all hours, camp and use drugs anywhere, take over a street intersection for car shows. We love it. It’s all BIG CITY life. If you don’t like it, move. Ducking gun shots means we made it – we are fun – we are tolerant.
Big city life??? So why is rent sky high and it’s the Wild West in the street? Who shoots up a memorial? Sure maybe in Chicago or Oakland that might happen, but ok….big city life. It’s like 5 gay bars and some drug dens that serve alcohol. It’s not jazzy speak easy Harlem-esk experience on The Hill, it’s like the worst parts about grungy.
Thank you, this is the perfect encapsulation of what has happened to our neighborhood over the last few years.
This happens because of income inequality, and further because of ease of access to guns…what person with a job and prospects for their future do you know that does this kind of stuff?? The cause for the crime here is the same for all over the world — this is America’s version, and it’s not just limited to Seattle…it’s all big cities with pronounced income inequality.
As much as I’m not a “walk naked” kinda guy, nor do I blast music at all hours or have the need to camp (because I have a house), I do recognize that living in a city around others comes with the acceptance of “the human condition” and moreso the potential to encounter the sometimes weird-ass humans that have grown to exist under our grim capitalist reality.
All that being said, dangerous car racing and gun violence should put the offender in jail, period, but no one is asking you personally to accept this stuff…conflating gun violence/automobile-based manslaughter with nudity/homeless people doing drugs just makes you sound like an old man yelling at clouds. It does sound like personal beef and I feel like you should try to have more compassion for the most vulnerable populations in our city who are dirt poor and live outdoors, many times through circumstances out of their control.
Crazy people like you make this place as dysfunctional as it is.
“moreso” I have been spelling it all wrong.
Nice I’ll file this new one in the gun denial pile.
Keep on beating that same old drum, my friend, filling the space up with useless noise: nobody here or anywhere within reach of your voice can do anything about your complaint, because that’s a state & federal issue Seattle has no power over. But perhaps you know that, and just enjoy griping?
Stay off the hill on weekends.
I would love it if someone could invent some kind of taxpayer-supported security organization that can be trusted to fight crime.
Its called Seattle police
He said “trusted.”
No one trusts SPD.
who dat
(that’s the joke)
Mmm they’re scared of all the guns too actually.
Someone on this blog commented that the new motto of SPD should be “no suspects identified” which is sadly appropriate.
Most of the shootings are probably from people who don’t even live in the city. They are probably here commenting below how dangerous the city has gotten as well.
They are done by gang members. Some are from Seattle, but not from Capitol Hill specifically (South End, maybe some CD). Auburn, Kent, etc.
An extraordinarily large percentage of crime is perpetrated by a very small percentage of criminals.
So what if they are from those areas. Ain’t nothing to do out there. So they are weekend residents who run up to the hill to sale dope and act up in the pike/pine corridor. It’s a Capitol Hill problem. And it’s gonna stay that way for a while.
All of the shootings are from people with guns.
A lot of you were not here in the 90s and early oughts and it shows.
Yeah but it was not that bad. Maybe a few patches of ratchetness here and there but most of it was on 1st Ave bell town and lower Queen Anne and 23rd and Madison. The hill is not The Hill anymore. It’s 3rd and pine square or some other ridiculous renaming. “Arts district” how rude!
The drugs were different back then. Yes, there were homeless people, but it was extremely rare to see people freaking out and acting out aggressively like they are now. I mean, I live off Broadway and walk everywhere, and it really is a daily occurrence now. That is very different than back in the day.
born raised 60 years and seen it all. I was a feral, free range kid. We were walking 1st Ave. at early morning hours. There were tons of strip joints and porn houses. All the lights and the sense of forbidden danger at 12 years old. We’d walk from Ballard. Climb the radio towers on Queen Anne.
Back then you could still see reruns of Dragnet. Talkin’ about “bennies” and “Marijuana”. Today it’s so addictive that all you need is one. Either hooked or die or both. It’s a different animal and just because it’s hard. Doesn’t mean we abandon them.
I don’t have all the answers. But there’s a lot of suffering so 3 people can own 50% of America’s wealth.
Expand on this please!
I was, and I don’t know what you mean by this comment. I’ve lived on the Hill since the early 90s and used to walk home back then at 3am with no problems. Now I can’t even walk to the dentist at 11am without some guy “in crisis” taking his problems out on me.
There was a lot less disorder on the hill in the 90s, period.
I’ve been here since ‘95… Capitol Hill did not have weekly shootings, stabbings, beatings back then…. Even the CD, where I live, and which had a bad reputation at the time felt safer than the hill on a late night weekend these days.
Let’s dispense with the edge lord-ness. I’ve lived here my whole life (60) mostly in Capitol Hill, Downtown and the CD, and it was never like this in the eighties or nineties. Sure, there was some homeless and a few mentally ill eccentrics, but you knew who they were. Gangs shot other gang members, with a code, not just random bump stock drive-bys in the afternoon outside schools.
I mean the crap I’ve personally seen go down just over the last few years, even in my current neighborhood of upper Leschi, is nothing like I saw in all of the entirety of the previous decades mentioned, and I even lived in Belltown at the height of the crack crisis in the late eighties. Please let’s not gaslight ourselves with “this is normal for a city” b.s. Shooting a pregnant woman in her car in the middle of the day is not some sort of ‘you just can’t hack it” flex.
We all are in serious trouble if the fire department shows up in bullet proof vests and tactical helmets….