West Seattle robbery side note: Downtown scene now clear

It’s the last entry in our all-day multiple-update running report on the situation that started as an armed robbery at the Admiral/California Wells Fargo and ended with police shooting a suspect downtown – but in case you missed it there, Spring Street is open again (photo above is from about an hour ago, nobody much left but TV trucks getting ready for 10/11 pm updates) – same spot from which Sharonn Meeks sent this photo at lunchtime (used in our earlier coverage):

Thanks again to everyone who contributed photos, video, information, and other comments to today’s updates. If we learn anything else significant tonight, we’ll add it to this post; tomorrow we plan to start a new one with an update on the bank, assuming it reopens for business in the morning. 9:57 PM UPDATE: P-I talked with the mother of the uninjured suspect, who is now in jail. 10:36 PM UPDATE: Thanks to Scott C (who says thanks in turn to friend Jeff for helping!) for sending this photo of the suspects’ Jeep Cherokee – he happened to pull up next to the “tow” truck as it was driving off, tonight after 5 pm:

EARLY WEDNESDAY ADDENDUM: Kevin in Arbor Heights just sent us this photo of a sign he saw outside a bar near the shooting scene:

BORN&RAISED WEST SEATTLEITE July 1, 2008 (10:36 pm)

That was a crazy morning across from the Wells Fargo bank robbery at Linda’s Flowers! Lot’s of police activity, helicopters ,Seattle Times,and then to follow everything on the news in front of the store was Essex Porter from channel 7 news. I cannot beleive all the gunshots that were shot downtown , just glad it did not happaen in our “HOOD”. How many times has that bank robbed now maybe they too will put up safety glass like all other banks in West Seattle , I feel sorry for all the people that work there for there SAFETY!!

Karl July 1, 2008 (10:49 pm)

Very happy that no one (sans one criminal) was hurt!

JanS July 1, 2008 (10:49 pm)

this branch doesn’t have safety glass? why did I think they did? I know the Junction branch has it, but I thought this branch did too…

WSB July 1, 2008 (10:54 pm)

If anyone happens onto this post and it’s not obvious from our inline links above, our all-day, frequently updated coverage (from first word of the WS robbery in the 10 am hour, through the street reopening after 8 pm) is here:
https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=8665