Adamow
The victim in the deadly December 31st shooting at Broadway and Pike has been identified.
The King County Medical Examiner says Jonny Adamow died of a gunshot wound to the chest in the early Tuesday shooting at the troubled intersection.
Adamow was 29 and is being remembered as an artist and friend by loved ones and family.
Adamow appeared to have been hit in an ambush targeting another person.
Video recorded during the just before 3 AM incident from the city’s traffic camera system shows the gunman lurking behind a utility pole in wait while the victim walks past eastbound on Pike before stepping between the hidden shooter and another man crossing northbound. The suspect opens fire just as the victim steps between him and the northbound man. Adamow can be seen slumping to the ground as the gunman runs away toward the Neighbours alley. The possible intended target also fled the scene.
Police have asked for the public’s help in the search for the suspect. Call 911 or the Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000 if you have information that might aid the investigation.
As he addressed the shooting headed into Tuesday night’s New Year’s Eve festivities and expected Pike/Pine crowds, Mayor Bruce Harrell called Adamow’s killing “heartbreaking and unacceptable.” Harrell says the Seattle Police Department has seized 5,500 guns over the past three years in ongoing efforts to address a surge in shootings and homicides.
Adamow’s killing was the thirteenth killing investigated in the East Precinct covering Capitol Hill and the Central District in 2024.
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More blood on the hands of the mayor, SPD and the entire council. They’re clearly doing not enough and it’s an embarrassment.
Don’t forget the DA’s office! Their decisions on what cases to pursue has a direct influence on what crimes SPD is willing to spend their time on.
which city council session are you blaming? let’s all remember that the pre-2024 progressive lead city council had a disdain for SPD and increasing funds. it’ll probably take us at least 5 years to get back to pre-june 2020 SPD staffing levels.
The police feel useless when this continues to happen. Why not just park a police vehicle on the corner with the lights running 24/7? Something quick needs to happen while a long term solution can be found.
1) there’s not enough staff to even contemplate that
2) even if there was, the dealing business is highly mobile.. they’d just move to the nearest spot that they were no longer in sight and start up there instead..
SPD job description: Sit in patrol vehicle at a busy Capitol Hill intersection. Activate sirens occasionally. Close to coffee shops and restaurants. Pay is 89,500+ depending on experience.
SPD does sit there, in the gas station parking lot, and in the summer they lean on the hood of their patrol car. When a neighborhood resident walks up to them and asks them to enforce the law being broken right in front of them at 3am on a weekend night, they smile and say “We’re too short handed” and just keep sitting there. Perhaps they feel useless because they’re absolutely worthless.
troubled intersection? There seem to be many of those in Seattle these days, along with troubled mid-blocks, troubled parks, troubled vacant buildings, troubled highways, troubled interstates, etc., etc.
How would you know? You haven’t been to seattle in 40 years, old timer. Too afraid to parallel park.
How do you not know? Hermit? Need your eyes checked? I agree with Jeff.
I partly agree with Jeff. He forgot ally and store front overhangs.
This cold-blooded murder is heart-breaking, and even more so because Jonny was not the intended target. I hope the perp is caught, and caught soon.
Jonny looks like a beautiful, kind, and gentle soul. It’s heartbreaking to see someone so young have their life senselessly taken away. My heart goes out to his friends, family, and colleagues. RIP.
That’s exactly what I thought. The kid clearly has no enemies.
It’s just infuriating how the city continues to be reactive and never proactive especially when it comes to public safety and policing. They have the money too but they claim poor and piddle it away on a bunch of crap due to continued ineffective leadership and public policies.
let’s all remember that the pre-2024 progressive lead city council had a disdain for SPD and increasing funds. it’ll probably take us at least 5 years to get back to pre-june 2020 SPD staffing levels. Maybe the new police chief will be able to attract experienced police officers to the area to join SPD.
And there are many residents in this city who want to defund the police and only send out social workers…this is what Kashama Sawant created…SHE was an ineffective leader…we need to not allow criminals back on the street, so many of them have long rap sheets…and there are non profits who are bailing them out…the poor guy didn’t deserve to die…heartbreaking…
She seems to have been very effective as a leader. Her policies on the other hand, seem to have been utopian in nature and not effective in dealing with the world as it actually is.
The drug dealers who have taken over near our home are many of the same faces for many months or years. One guy on a mountain bike has worked his route here since 2021 I think (!)
We’ve seen dozens of drug deals. Dozens of cars pull up and do a money exchange.
It’s not like criminal activity along Broadway Ave and surrounding blocks is new.
What’s new is SPD does nothing about it. That’s been a change definitely since 2020. So, another miserable result of the George Floyd riots, CHAZ CHOP, and the Progressive council of 2019-2023. The same goofballs that posed for selfies in Cal Anderson park while SPD was abandoned and Capitol Hill was literally in the hands of Anarchists.
We, the non-Antifa, non-ACAB people of Capitol Hill, need to keep speaking up loudly for a return to laws being enforced, to known dealers being prosecuted and convicted, and for SPD to get back to proactive policing. Half of us, at least, wants this. But we let activists after 2020 decide for us. This must stop. Or the senseless crimes like this and many other killings will likely continue.
Or we eventually get tired of it and move.
Definitely the cops just not doing their job and the law not being enforced is totally the fault of non-cop people.
Also, I assume you’ve taken a picture of this mountain bike fellow and sent it into the police and reported how you’ve witnessed his drugs deals, when he does them, and where he does them, and what time? You know, to remove any excuses the police might have for constantly not doing the job you’re so very eager for them to do?
Also, I dunno, but you know how if you want do cut down on drug dealing you kind of need to address demand. If there’s people who feel like they want or need drugs to get through their life, someone is going to show up to sell to them. Drug dealers are kinda like shark’s teeth in that respect: Knock one out, a new one rolls up to take the spot.
Yeah… it is even harder when all the entertainers have good drug connecting but the party goers have to turn to the corners of pike/pine.
I’m really scared by this news. The area is now a soda zone! A soda zone as discribed by my sibling who once used to run around in a soda zone is one of the worst parts of the city. I don’t go to pioneer square to kick it, I don’t kick it in Belltown, I don’t kick it in china town or 1st Ave…. It’s just not a thing