West Seattle Crime Watch: Stadium scare

Thanks to Brenda for e-mailing to ask what we knew about an incident at West Seattle Stadium earlier today, reported to her by a witness; we just checked with the Seattle Police media unit and here’s what they found out: A man in the stands at noon today during a youth football game spotted a man “with whom he had an ongoing disagreement,” as Det. Mark Jamieson put it, and pointed a gun at that man. Others apparently tried to intervene. No shots were fired and nobody was hurt; police were called, but the two men were both gone before they arrived. Witnesses had a description of the car in which the man with the gun left; Det. Jamieson says a car matching that description was stopped in the 6900 block of Delridge (about 2 miles away; map), but the suspect wasn’t in it. Nobody arrested or hurt, and police didn’t find the gun, but Brenda says the witness told her game was stopped for a while as all this played out.

LAP September 26, 2009 (10:12 pm)

I was northbound on 35th around noon, a few cars beind a string of police cars with lights on – also headed northbound. Because of the SUV-type of vehicles in front of me I couldn’t see where they went…figured it was into the stadium or down Avalyon – but lost sight of them. I knew if I was patient I would see something about it here. Happy to know that no one was hurt – scary this happened during what looked like a football game.