WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: 3 gunfire incidents, 2 car prowls

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Five notes in West Seattle Crime Watch:

GUNFIRE THIS MORNING: 911 got calls around 10:30 am of gunfire heard near 29th/Barton. The preliminary SPD report isn’t in yet but the communications team confirms evidence of gunfire was found – a damaged car window. If you have any information, the incident number is 2022-299590. (added) Seattle Public Schools confirms that the former Roxhill building, now home to several SPS programs, was in shelter-in-place for about 20 minutes because of this. ADDED TUESDAY: Here’s the SPD summary made available today:

Passenger in a gray sedan fired multiple gunshots at another vehicle near 29 AV SW/SW Barton Street. Officers responded and recovered several shotgun shells at the scene. Citizens were walking in the immediate area during the incident, however no one was shot or injured. (Victim) called and vehicle contained evidence consistent with being fired upon.

2 GUNFIRE INCIDENTS SATURDAY NIGHT: We reported briefly on the incident in High Point just before 10 pm Saturday. Here’s the SPD summary:

Officers responded to a report of shots heard near 29 Ave SW and SW Morgan St. Additional calls to 911 indicated that possible parties involved were running in multiple directions. A possible victim description was provided by callers and officers located him near the scene. The victim was uninjured and stated that he and 2 friends had just arrived at the location after visiting a cannabis dispensary in White Center. As they were about to park an unknown male emerged from an alley and began firing at them without provocation. The victim(s) immediately fled on foot. The single suspect fled the scene on foot and an area check did not locate him at this time. Evidence of a shooting was recovered from the scene. Guardian One was unavailable and a K9 Track was not feasible. … Two vehicles and 2 homes were struck by gunfire. Victims were notified of the damage.

Commenters mentioned an incident earlier in North Delridge. Here’s the summary for that incident, reported just before 8 pm:

Officers responded to 5000 block of 25 Ave SW to a report of shots heard along a nearby park. Officers located the scene and found evidence of a shooting in the middle of the road. Witnesses had limited information and no suspect physical description or vehicle description were provided. An area check found no injured persons and no property damage.

If you have any information, the incident numbers are 2022-298318 for the High Point case and 2022-297207 for the North Delridge case.

Also today, two reader reports about car prowls overnight:

FAUNTLEROY BREAK-IN: From Tom:

Someone overnight broke into my car and broke out a small window in the back. They got in, took all paperwork, and also broke the ignition.

No police report # yet.

GATEWOOD BREAK-IN: Laura reports a car break-in overnight, second one in a week on her block in Gatewood. The report number is 2022-923925.

WSRes November 7, 2022 (8:11 pm)

We cannot accept the steady decline of Seattle (and WA) as the new normal.

Question Authority November 8, 2022 (11:50 am)

Voting for Ferrell is a step towards fixing that.

1994 November 7, 2022 (9:26 pm)

Too many guns out there and too many in the hands of irresponsible people! Get some self control people!

Mike November 7, 2022 (10:39 pm)

Are people really not aware of what gangs and cartels are? We literally just had a multi agency cartel connected bust in West Seattle. Mexican and U.S. agencies coordinated and got the Oregon guy selling firearms and ammo to the CJNG that blew a Mexican military helicopter out of the sky and killed countless people. This summer we had CJNG and Sinaloa connected busts in Seattle and Burien (a judge let the Sinaloa connected people go with low bail so they paid and skipped out of the area).

Terry November 8, 2022 (12:16 pm)

The lack of interest from our cities leadership (?) Is disgusting.

WSB November 8, 2022 (12:42 pm)

The mayor and police chief are having a news conference at 2 pm about today’s shooting at Ingraham HS, in which the victim suffered life-threatening injuries. Perhaps they will address the increase in gun violence in general.

Jennifer November 8, 2022 (12:44 pm)

If thier were any witness to the roxhill shooting or have suspect info can you please privately message me I was the one in the red car that got shoot at I know who it was but I feel like police don’t care not taking it seriously it’s another shooting to them but this almost took our life and not sure who else talked to police as I took off didn’t wanna get killed but I did call after I was safe and able to

Matt November 8, 2022 (1:32 pm)

It’s really disheartening to hear about more and more shootings. Makes you feel kind of helpless. Can’t go outright blaming city leadership or even police if you’re honest with yourself and not just whining; what could they do that would actually help? Increase police budgets? That’ll do what exactly? More cops available to roam? Not likely to help. You could station several cops in the Westwood Village area 24/7 and the shootings would just move elsewhere, they wouldn’t help reduce them at all except to possibly make WWV safer (which would definitely be nice but doesn’t help those in the communities the shootings will move to so any “win” here is just NIMBY relief). I say “possibly” because look at at how much crime happens in Home Depot’s parking lot in view of the South Precinct; full on martial law in WWV wouldn’t stop people robbing the Ross. Harsher sentences? Actually prosecuting people? We should do that for sure but how often are these people actually caught? Not giving city leadership a total pass in all this, just venting that this isn’t some “vote them out and that’ll fix it!” problem, just legitimately wondering what real, concrete actions could be taken because on the surface it feels like nothing will help and that’s depressing.