WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: School damaged by gunfire; stolen Sportage; another broken-window car prowl

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Three reports:

GUNFIRE DAMAGES SCHOOL: From Seattle Police report summaries, this Monday discovery on the Highland Park Elementary campus:

At 10:32 [am], staff observed two children handling a spent casing in the playground area. The staff member then observed bullet damage on the building. Police responded and noted ballistic damage to a floodlight and on the exterior of the building where the floodlight was located. Staff indicated the light was functioning Thursday (8/3) and found damaged Friday (8/4).

If you have any information, the SPD incident # is 23-225299.

STOLEN SPORTAGE: From Molly: “We unfortunately woke up to our 2022 white Kia Sportage stolen from our driveway this morning in Gatewood. With the string of people joyriding and swapping Kia/Hyundais, we are really hoping it is still in the neighborhood.” License plate CAC0282.

ANOTHER BROKEN-WINDOW CAR PROWL: From Brigid:

Woke up to our driver’s-side door smashed Friday, August 4th. Parked on 29th Street SW in front of our house, between Cloverdale and Trenton. Nothing inside to steal, pure vandalism entertainment. Rash of cars’ windows being broken in our Westwood neighborhood :( Neighbors think it could have been between 530 am-700 am? Submitted police report.

Wickedbrew August 8, 2023 (3:04 pm)

There’s a lot of drug trafficking around highland park elementary. There’s always weird cars parked late night and creepy characters driving and walking. Feels so unsafe and only a few months ago they arrested a guy naked in his car with drugs and guns with several warrants.. There’s a lot of drug activities going on and needs to stop immediately. Highland park and white center need better policing for public safety too many drugged out criminals doing no good for the community

Danimal August 9, 2023 (1:28 am)

It’s sounding more and more like citizens need to start doing their own policing, within the confines of the law.

Annette August 8, 2023 (11:10 pm)

Just to add to what seems to be a recent string of crime over the weekend, I woke up early Sunday morning to my car broken into.

Tired of the BS August 9, 2023 (11:20 am)

Report, report and report. Reporting leads to more police visibility in those areas. I filed a police report for an attempted break in through my alley access gate. The only damage was to the gate lock, just a couple of bucks to repair. About 4 days later after I filed the online report, a SPD sergeant stopped by just to ask a few questions about the incident. The visit wasn’t really necessary since my report was fairly detailed but what it did tell me is that SPD does read the reports and responds to those reports.

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