Police activity in Morgan Junction: False alarm

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Police and fire responding to 6400 block of California, which would be immediately north of Fauntleroy (map). We’ll be there in a minute. UPDATE: Police have just called off the fire/medic crews, saying “it’s NOT a shooting.” The 911 log call originally said “assault with weapons” but it has closed. 2ND UPDATE: Police are leaving. Here’s what happened: Two people were hanging out in the alley area near Zeeks, described to us as “transients,” and one started yelling about a shooting. Police determined no such thing had happened, though one of them had a “cut-up hand.” Case closed but we’ll leave this up in case you saw everyone rushing there and wondered what happened.

beachdrivegirl September 15, 2009 (11:43 am)

what idiots. i know that isnt polite or pc to say but it seriously pisses me off that people think it is okay to joke about a shooting.

WSB September 15, 2009 (11:46 am)

It does divert resources, among other things – we had a thread just the other day in which several people reported what seemed to them like slow response times for burglaries – you never know, one of the officers who had to rush to this MIGHT have been just about to get to a call like that, maybe even one that had been on hold for a while, but if there’s a “life safety” issue, it’s drop everything and roar that way (two fire units were dispatched too, we got word of this because one roared past our house on the way down the hill) – TR

Hob September 15, 2009 (12:36 pm)

This is another reason we need to crack down on homeless and transients in West Seattle

beachdrivegirl September 15, 2009 (5:01 pm)

well even thinking back to the “shooting” on Beach DR on the 4th. multiple police units & canine units were dispactched for the suspect….imagine what other things those officers could have been doing.

miws September 15, 2009 (5:24 pm)

I was wondering what was going on. I heard the sirens, and it sounded like they were stopping near California & Fauntleroy.

I had rebooted my computer around that time, because it was really sluggish, and when I tried to get back on the net, kept getting the message that MSN (dial-up) was having problems with the sign in servers. So, I couldn’t check in here and/or the SFD Log, for info.

And yeah, I’d like to see people that make false claims such as that, or call in what they know to be a false report, be punished.
Mike

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