WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Gunfire investigation at Avalon/Genesee

9:10 PM: Thanks for the tips and photos. Police are investigating gunfire at an apartment complex at Avalon/Genesee. 911 callers first reported hearing possible gunfire around 7:20 pm. Then they got reports of an apartment window ‘blown out” by someone firing from outside (above), and bullet damage to a car (below).

So far, we’re not hearing of any injuries, though there was an apparently unrelated assault call on SW Yancy nearby less than half an hour earlier. No word of a suspect description. Police did find casings on SW Genesee, in addition to the damage noted above.

9:50 PM: Police just got a call from someone reporting bullet damage to another apartment at the same complex and will be returning to the area.

Rocky Bullwinkle July 1, 2023 (11:09 pm)

Sigh. More cops, CCTV, stiffer laws, and more jail cells, please. Based on all the gun crime posts here on blog, criminals are running around feeling like they can do anything because thry know nothing will happen to them.

Jim July 2, 2023 (6:19 am)

They’re already some pretty steep laws out there It’s just a matter of bringing the hammer down. The judges around here seem to like to grant bail in lower amounts even for violent crimes. Totally agree with you criminals are absolutely emboldened
- Dooh July 2, 2023 (7:55 am)
  
  You do that the judges have sentencing guidelines put for by the state on how long they can put them away. They just don’t do it willy nilly. But agreed, we need more police, jails, there go our taxes again.
- Josh July 2, 2023 (10:13 am)
  
  Yes let’s do even more of what hasn’t worked for decades, that will surely stop people who were born and bred into a toxic stew of bad choices, worse options and hostility everywhere to just you know do right. Fact is the idiots out there shooting are lost to themselves and all of us. We need to make this country worth fighting for and living in for those still developing. Tax the rich, universal healthcare, housing for all, civics back in schools, and give everyone a fighting chance to want to be a part of the rebuilding our frayed social fabric. Or just you know scare all the baddies into being good.
  - Rhonda July 2, 2023 (12:53 pm)
    
    This country IS worth fighting for and has ALWAYS been. It sounds like you’ve never fought for it, but very many have. I’m very proud to celebrate this greatest of nations on Tuesday the 4th 🇺🇸

Seattlite July 2, 2023 (5:40 pm)

Rhonda…Great, patriotic comment. Happy Fourth of July to you! July 4, 2023, is America’s 247th birthday since winning its Independence from the British.

Thisyourbuilding? July 3, 2023 (1:57 am)

Do any of you live here in this building/ complex? My most important person does. Most honest gentle kind human I have met in my small short life. That tenant cares and doesn’t need to check on this blog reading all your half ass comments. Ya’ll sound like you wanna bring some guns to a suicide fight. Damages happened. You don’t actually care. America is not the best, we just spend the most.
Be kind to your neighbors. Turn off your internet and go outside.

Scarlett July 3, 2023 (10:28 am)

Fighting for “what” kind of a country, exactly? Crony capitalism where monetary policies are a gift to the upper middle-class and wealthy asset class? An Orwellian surveillance state that has access to every keystroke of your online activity and can you put on a watch list, without your knowledge, if you don’t fall in line? A country that has a government within a government, aka the military industrial complex? It is difficult for me to understand how people can reach adulthood – chronologically, at least – and be so stunningly naive and clueless. So, yeah, go have your fun but I won’t be participating in this national staged “theatre” called July 4th.

dianeseattle July 3, 2023 (2:21 pm)

This is a building in my complex. I just walked up to look. This had to be a domestic violence or a targeted drive-by, not part of a spree including Yancy. I was nearly hit in a drive-by in front of my old White Center house years ago, but this was actually closer to my physical space. Whenever I hear shots or unusual noise, I call the cops, and when they come, they grill me and find nothing. I feel Seattle is becoming more dangerous by the week and statistically we are under-policed. I’d really like to hear some ideas for working solutions.

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