West Seattle Crime Watch: Shooting followup; stolen car; drugs

First note comes from last night’s West Seattle Crime Prevention Council meeting (previous story here), but we wanted to double-confirm it before reporting it: Lt. Norm James says the man shot and killed in White Center early Saturday is the same man who was arrested in The Junction a week ago tonight after a brief police-weapons-drawn search that followed a report of a shoplifter thought to have had a gun. We are checking with King County Sheriff’s Office to see if there are any updates in the case. Meantime, we have two WSB’er Crime Watch reports to share. First, from Sharon:

Could you please have your readers be on the lookout (BOLO) for my 2004 Toyota Sequoia (white in color). It was stolen from my driveway, in the 5300 blk of SW Dakota [map] between late Sunday evening and 0800hrs Monday morning. The License # is 954UAF. Please contact the Seattle Police Dept. (or local Police/Sheriff if found outside city limits) if found or noticed driving around.

And from a parent who did not want to give her name:

Will you please post a notice regarding the selling of drugs in Schmitz Park under the Admiral Bridge overpass. My two boys were walking through Schmitz Park to Alki last weekend with a few friends, when they were approached & offered drugs to buy. Please ask our Community to report any suspicious or drug activity.

6 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Shooting followup; stolen car; drugs"

  • Jeff May 19, 2010 (12:53 pm)

    The Schmitz Park report is interesting. Last weekend I noticed a very sketchy looking person coming up the stairs at Shmitz. I remember thinking that he looked like he was up to something(paying too much attention to traffic, moving kind of quickly) etc.)I figured it was just a strung out beach goer but I’ll keep a better eye out next time.

  • M May 19, 2010 (1:35 pm)

    I did see some kids drinking beer by the stairs to the bridge Saturday; didn’t think of it then but thought later if you were old enough to drink why would you do it there?

  • JanS May 19, 2010 (1:57 pm)

    M..I’m betting they weren’t old enough to drink legally if you’re saying they were kids. Schmitz Park has been notorious for a long time for teenagers to get together and drink.

  • Travis_Bickle May 20, 2010 (6:52 am)

    Party at the moon tower.

  • a concerned WS parent May 20, 2010 (8:33 am)

    I have lived in WS for many years and I was down on Alki last week and noticed a lot of “gang” members. They were obviously not down there to look at the scenery. Hanging in front of Pepperdocks- up to no good. I want those people out of our town. They bring nothing good to this community- and it is a shame when families go to the beach for innocent activities. This was the first time I have been on Alki- when I felt unsafe.
    I hope our community can ban together and do something-we need to get these thugs out of here.

  • Erik May 27, 2010 (1:28 pm)

    I knew the name of the guy who was arrested in teh Junction and looked it up.. he is infact listed in “gang related homicide” … so the whitecenter shooting was the same guy! scary that they were only 4 days apart

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