UPDATE: Shots? Backfires? Police investigating multiple reports

10:57 PM WEDNESDAY: Two areas of West Seattle have been the source of multiple 911 calls about possible gunshots in the past 15 minutes or so. First, Avalon Way, where police in the area subsequently told dispatch that a loudly backfiring motorcycle had gone through the area. Shortly thereafter, we heard a couple of booms as did multiple others here in the area uphill/east from Lincoln Park. Police are checking around but so far no reported evidence of gunfire (no victims, casings, damage).

THURSDAY AFTERNOON: No confirmed gunfire cases ended up in the SPD Twitter log that we aggregate on our Crime Watch page. We are checking with SPD media relations to see if they can turn anything up.

5 Replies to "UPDATE: Shots? Backfires? Police investigating multiple reports"

  • Rick May 3, 2018 (12:33 pm)

    I heard the Lincoln Park booms and sounded like gunfire to me but hard to be sure.

  • momof3boys May 3, 2018 (2:05 pm)

    We heard them too, thought they sounded like M-80’s, but it is very hard to tell.

    • WSB May 3, 2018 (2:32 pm)

      That was my guess. Tweets by Beat has no confirmed gunshot calls in West Seattle for last night – the motorcycle backfire in the Avalon area was classified “other disturbance” – but SPD public affairs downtown is doublechecking for me. Aside from the dispatch on the ones we heard, with most calls from the Lincoln Park/Gatewood area, there was no further radio traffic.

  • thermo May 3, 2018 (2:48 pm)

    it sounded like mortar style fireworks to me. A boom followed by smaller cracks. 

  • acrossthe street May 3, 2018 (3:03 pm)

    The noise on Avalon was someone with firecrackers in the parking lot of the Golden Tee. 

    This was obvious to those of us across the street and from my bedroom window.

    These are not the neighbors for which we are building a better West Seattle.

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