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• 18th Ave E gunfire arrest: Seattle’s bout of February snow helped Seattle Police track down the suspect in an overnight 18th Ave E gunfire incident last week. SPD says the suspect’s footprints on the snowy street led officers to the man after residents reported gunfire near Stevens Elementary School early on the morning of Thursday, February 6th. According to police, gunshots were reported in the area of 18th Ave E just after 4:30 AM. SPD says arriving officers found multiple bullet holes in a vehicle — and footprints in the snow. Officers were able to track down the suspect a couple of blocks away and take him into custody without incident. Police also recovered a handgun. The 32-year-old was booked into King County Jail for investigation of aiming or discharging firearms, and reckless endangerment. Police say witness provided video “confirming the shooting, including a visible muzzle flash and the suspect’s voice, which was distinguishable as he was heard yelling.” There were no reported injuries.
• Powell Barnett Park suspicious object incident: Seattle Police taped off the Central District’s Powell Barnett Park Tuesday night over concerns about a “suspicious tennis ball size object” found near an encampment. SPD says officers were called to the area near E Jefferson and MLK Way around 4 PM. “Officers closed the park and placed tape around the outer part of the park to prevent citizens from entering,” SPD says. The department’s Arson and Bomb Squad was called to the scene where investigators examined the object, “made it safe” and removed it. There were no reported injuries and no arrests.
• 23rd/Madison armed robbery: Seattle Police investigated a reported armed robbery at 23rd and Madison early Tuesday morning. According to East Precinct radio updates on the 12:45 AM incident, the victim was able to wave down police only seconds after the street hold-up. Police searched the area but had limited suspect information to go on. There were no reported injuries and no arrests.
• Concern over man down on frozen sidewalk: More than a dozen 911 callers reported a man down and possibly unconscious on a Capitol Hill sidewalk along 19th Ave E on Thursday’s icy morning with temperatures in the 20s but Seattle Police say the subject declined services in multiple contacts through the day. A 911 caller tells CHS that dispatchers were informing citizen reporting concerned about the man that the department was aware of the situation and had been out to contact the man multiple times and that he was not injured and declined services. The man remained on the sidewalk at the street corner through the day, according to the caller. The bout of below freezing temperatures have been dangerous for people living unsheltered but there have been no deaths due to exposure reported so far this month, according to a review of reports from the King County Medical Examiner. Information from the King County Regional Homelessness Authority on severe weather services and shelter is posted here.

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• Good samaritan helps robbery victim get home: Seattle Police say a good samaritan who witnessed a driver getting knocked out by a punch and robbed in an altercation over a fender bender near Broadway Hill Park early last Monday morning, picked up the unconscious victim, drove him home, and got him into his apartment where he later came to and got himself to the hospital. According to the SPD report on the robbery investigation, police were able to piece together what happened in the 1 AM fight thanks to a note the good samaritan left in the knocked-out victim’s pocket. Interviewing the victim at Harborview where he was being treated for an injured neck, police learned only that the victim remembered getting into a small collision near Federal and Republican. “I don’t see any damage, I’m going home,” the victim remembered saying. That was the last thing he would recall. He woke up in his apartment with his phone and wallet stolen and found the note. The victim “said he found a piece of paper in his pocket with the name of a witness, XXXXX. XXXX, his phone number, and a message saying, ‘the guy who drove you home after you got knocked out,'” the SPD report reads. Police say the suspect who stole the phone also called the victim’s mother to try to get her to wire money for the return of the victim’s property. Police contacted the good samaritan and were able to learn what had gone down. The man said he was sitting in Broadway Hill Park when he noticed around ten vehicles were stopped in the middle of the E Republican. He described the altercation and said the suspect punched the victim in the face and sent him crashing to the ground where he was knocked unconscious. The man told police he was able to wake the victim “up enough to find out where he lived and get the victim back inside the car he was driving and drove him home, “parked his vehicle and was able to carry XXXX into the building and left him in his apartment with the note.” SPD is investigating.
• First Hill gunfire: Seattle Police investigated gunfire that left a bullet hole in the parking garage fence at First Hill’s Sorrento Hotel early Wednesday. Police were called to the area around 2:30 AM to the reported shooting. “The reporting party stated that they heard approximately multiple shots followed by a vehicle speeding off westbound, but it was not observed,” the SPD report reads. There were no reported injuries.
• Central District gunfire: SPD also investigated a shooting last Wednesday evening near 21st and Cherry:
  At 1819 hours, multiple calls of shots being fired and a person fleeing. Officers arrived in the area and spoke to several witnesses. They pointed out a nearby apartment building and said that one of the persons involved had run inside of the apartments. No victims were located. No damage to any cars or buildings could be located. A check of the apartment building did not reveal any victims, the occupants were either uncooperative or said they did not see anything and only heard gunshots. GVRU was notified.
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  A still from video showing the January 16th incident

  Capitol Hill Station security tackle teen suspect: A Sound Transit spokesperson tells CHS that a January 16th incident at Capitol Hill Station involving use of force by its security officers was necessary to remove “a possible sharp weapon” from a suspect who had been involved in an ongoing altercation at the Broadway and John transit facility. Video of the incident captured by an observer shows one of two responding Sound Transit security staff tackle the teen female along E John and cause her to drop the object in the midst of a dispute involving multiple male and female subjects and a small child. The officers gain control of the weapon, release the teen, and she can be seen leaving the scene with another female subject and the small child. Sound Transit says the incident began around 1:30 PM with an altercation involving the suspect and several others that slowed as Seattle Police were called and Seattle Fire was on the scene to treat one person for an injury. Sound Transit says the fighting began again as police left, necessitating the use of force. There were no immediate arrests.

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• First Hill shooting: Police are investigating an overnight shooting inside a First Hill apartment building that sent a man to the hospital early Friday:
  At 2:20 a.m. Friday, a dispatcher received a report of a shooting inside a building in the 800 block of Spring Street. Officers arrived to find a 37-year-old man in the building’s stairwell, suffering from a gunshot wound to the hip area. Officers provided aid until Seattle Fire Department personnel arrived, and the victim was transported to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition.
  SPD says a passerby found the victim on the 13th floor and called 911 but the circumstances leading up to the shooting remain under investigation.
• Helicopter search for stolen truck: The King County Sheriff’s Guardian One helicopter aided in the search for a stolen truck on Capitol Hill Wednesday. According to police radio updates, officers were assisting with a victim near the Capitol Hill Safeway who reported their truck had been stolen and said they were in contact with the thieves who were arranging to meet up for a deal to give the stolen vehicle back. The chopper was called in to search for the Chevy Silverado with Mexico plates around 3:15 PM and circled the area without locating the vehicle. There were no reported arrests.

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• ‘Extraordinary’ First Hill crash: A woman walked away from her wrecked Tesla in a spectacular high-speed crash Sunday night on First Hill. The Seattle Police Department reported details of the strange incident that ended with the 37-year-old driver smashing into a building in the 1100-block of University Sunday around 6 PM:
  

  Police determined that the motorist was traveling eastbound on University Street when she attempted to make a U-turn near the intersection at University and Boren Avenue. The driver accelerated back through the intersection before the light turned red. While making the U-turn she hit a parked vehicle then continued onto the sidewalk through a railing, and onto a ramp attached to an apartment building.

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• Pine delivery van shooting: Police say a delivery driver shot a man trying to steal his van early Saturday outside Pine’s PIVOT Apartments. According to SPD’s report on the 4:45 AM incident, the driver was coming back out of the building when he found the suspect inside the delivery van and ready to speed away. Police say the victim pulled out a handgun and opened fire as the suspect struck him with the van as he tried to speed from the scene. The victim was able to track the van a few blocks away where police found it parked near a downtown hotel with the suspect bleeding inside and multiple bullet holes in the van. Seattle Fire was called to the scene where its crew treated the suspect for a gunshot wound to the chest before transporting him to Harborview. The victim was not reported seriously injured in the melee.
• Boren hit and run crash arrest: A driver was arrested for investigation of hit and run after fleeing an early Saturday two-vehicle crash that left one of the cars rolled over and injured multiple occupants. Police were called to Boren and E Fir just after 1:30 AM to the crash scene:

   The driver and passenger of the rolled vehicle were on scene with unknown serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. The occupants of the other vehicle fled the scene. WSP was on scene and said the suspect vehicle had fled from a traffic stop that they conducted further south on Rainier Ave. WSP did not pursue and did not follow but happened upon the crash as they continued north on Rainier Ave while driving routinely. Officers and WSP worked together to determine that the R/O of the suspect vehicle was its driver.

  A short time later, police learned that a person matching the suspect’s description had walked into Swedish Cherry Hill Hospital with serious injuries. Police say the driver in the other vehicle suffered broken bones from the crash. Officers went to Swedish, confirmed the suspect’s identity and arrested them for Felony Hit and Run. The suspect remained under guard at Swedish.

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• Woman suffers burns: Seattle Fire says a woman suffered serious injuries in a Wednesday morning apartment fire above the 23rd and Madison Safeway. 911 callers reported the incident just before 11 AM. Seattle Fire says the fire in the sixth floor unit was put out by sprinklers but the occupant suffered burns in the incident. SFD rushed the woman to Harborview in serious condition. The streets around the building including 23rd Ave were blocked by emergency vehicles responding to the incident. The cause of the fire was under investigation. Continue reading →