UPDATE: Shooting investigation in Highland Park/Riverview, with two gunfire locations (updated Monday night)

7:51 PM: Police are responding to a report of a shooting in Highland Park/Riverview. One person is reported to have arrived at the 16th/Holden fire station with a gunshot wound, though the shooting apparently happened elsewhere, possibly near 16th/Holly.

The person or persons who fired at the victim are believed to be in a black Jeep.

7:54 PM: The description of the shooter(s’) vehicle has changed again – possibly a dark green Kia Soul. … The possible shooting location is also now being described as 13th/Myrtle, “where the victim was parked” when shot.

7:59 PM: Officers tell dispatch they’ve found casings on 13th just north of Myrtle, near Riverview Playfield. … The vehicle description has changed for the third time – officers are saying that neighborhood security video shows a copper-colored Kia Sportage.

8:27 PM: Police are wrapping up their investigation at 13th/Myrtle (where our photo above is from) but have also just reported casings at 16th/Myrtle, so now they are closing 16th to investigate there. Meantime, we’re trying to clarify the status of the victim who showed up at the fire station.

10:29 PM: SFD spokesperson David Cuerpo tells us, “Crews treated a 39-year-old male for minor injuries. He declined transportation to a hospital.”

ADDED MONDAY AFTERNOON: SPD clarifies that the man’s injury turned out to be from broken glass, not a bullet. No other updates on the case.

ADDED MONDAY NIGHT: A detailed SPD summary provided since we talked with them this afternoon attributes the wound to “shrapnel” and includes a variety of additional details:

At 1944 hrs, SW Patrol responded to a report of a shooting that had occurred near 16 Ave SW/SW Holly St. While en route, responding Officers located a secondary victim vehicle at 16 Ave SW/ SW Holden St. This victim had been shot at while in a vehicle and suffered a non-life-threatening injury to his hip from shrapnel. SFD evaluated and cleared at the scene. This victim stated that the scene for this shooting was at 13 Ave SW/SW Myrtle St. The original victim vehicle was located at 16 Ave SW/SW Holly St. This first victim vehicle had been driving northbound on 16 Ave SW when suspects in a vehicle overtook them in the bike lane firing as they passed. The vehicle was struck by multiple rounds, but the occupants were unharmed. One of the suspects at some point dropped a firearm at 16 Ave SW/SW Myrtle St. The firearm was damaged and spilled numerous unspent rounds in the intersection. The firearm was retrieved by the suspect, and they fled northbound on 16 Ave SW. Officers processed scenes at 16/Myrtle (40 9mm unfired rounds, 1 9mm FCC, 1 .45 FCC), 16/Holly (Victim Vehicle), 16/Holden (Victim Vehicle) and 13/Myrtle (11 9mm FCC, 2 .45 FCC).

Cn July 27, 2024 (7:55 pm)

Tons of shots sounded like they came down Myrtle going west then north on 16th

17th neighbor July 27, 2024 (7:58 pm)

Is there an incident number? I was in my back yard on 17th when this happened. Shots at 16th and Myrtle as well.

WSB July 27, 2024 (8:07 pm)

The public logs lag by about half an hour so not quite yet. If you have information, just call 911 and tell them it’s about the West Seattle shooting, they’re not working any other shootings right now ….
PRN Neighbor July 27, 2024 (8:10 pm)

F240102561 – Scenes of violence 7
- WSB July 27, 2024 (8:18 pm)
  
  That’s the SFD incident #, not the SPD incident #. SFD incident #’s populate immediately but have no relation to the police investigation.
  - WSB July 27, 2024 (9:11 pm)
    
    Number’s out now – SPD incident # 24-208866

NIMBY Dad July 27, 2024 (9:19 pm)

I live right across from Riverview playfield, which is usually a very clean, quiet park with many law abiding citizens. I know it’s always clean because my wife and our 70 year old neighbor go up there to clean it regularly. Now this night particularly, a mob of people not associated with the neighborhood numbering 200-400 swarmed the park with a massive party. Ilegal parking everywhere. I drove through it (I could barely) a couple times to see what was going on. This was highly unusual activity for this park. And then we heard the gunfire, and cars peeling out. Shortly after, there was a mass Exodus of people leaving the park. So I knew it wasn’t fireworks. Then the fire department and ambulances rolled in, and the police blocked off 16th. This is why we can’t have nice things…

Kyle July 27, 2024 (10:04 pm)

If this was Alki, the solution being chirped would be to remove all the parking. Or make it harder for the law abiding citizens to use the park. What we need everywhere in this city is consequences and enforcement of the laws on the books. The amount of unsolved crimes and long response times (where some don’t even bother to call anymore) is the worst thing about living here, and what I would most like to help influence to change. Is it this bad elsewhere in Western WA? Hope we get an actual arrest on this gun violence but not holding my breath.
- Starlight July 29, 2024 (9:14 am)
  
  I 100% agree with your point of view.
J July 27, 2024 (10:21 pm)

Thank you for the additional context and information Nimby Dad.
BIPOC Neighbor July 29, 2024 (11:25 am)

Wow. As someone who also lives across the street and saw the “mob” (black people) hanging out, I’m seriously offended by this comment. It’s unlikely that you would say this about a group of baseball families who hang around after a baseball game (which happens often). You need to evaluate your biases and assumptions before commenting.
- WW Resident July 29, 2024 (1:40 pm)
  
  Don’t think baseball families fire a bunch of rounds from guns either into the air or at each other or throw one big massive (I’m sure disruptive to the neighbors) party or park illegally anyway they want in mass
Jeff July 29, 2024 (12:05 pm)

NIMBY dad, this is a huge dogwhistle, what the heck?? Stop this blatant racism.
- NIMBY Dad July 30, 2024 (11:50 am)
  
  I think we should hold everyone accountable for their actions, regardless of race or demographic. Bad and illegal behavior should be condemned and prosecuted, period. Let’s stop this nonsense about racism. Criminal activity is criminal regardless of what you look like. Would probably yield better results to hold everyone to the same high standard, or the social contract that we all rely on will fail. It was a mob of people, and they left a mob of people’s worth of garbage and drug paraphernalia at the playground where my kids play. My wife, again, had to clean it up. The shooting was a couple hundred feet from my house. Why choose to give these people a pass? Never had a problem/shooting with all the “mobs” of baseball players, or soccer teams playing.
  - BIPOC Neighbor July 30, 2024 (9:02 pm)
    
    “@Not In My BackYard Dad”: It’s really important to consider your biases. In this instance, using the term “mob” when you’re referring to a large group of Black people gathering at a public park is ignorant and offensive. Baseball families are constantly parking illegally – blocking driveways & fire hydrants. On several occasions a group of baseball families have stayed after a game to party and even shot (illegal) fireworks. The issue is less about your concern for gun violence and more about your assumption that the “mob” of people at the park caused the shooting, that they are “not associated” with our neighborhood, and finally that they are the reason “you can’t have nice things.”
    - Reality Checker August 1, 2024 (4:44 am)
      
      @BIPOC Neighbor: From one minority to another residing in the Riverview neighborhood near the park, your political correctness blinders are obstructive. You’re leading the narrative astray from the matter at hand: “a large crowd of people, one that was disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence” (source: Oxford Dictionary) disrupted our neighbor by trashing the premises and created an environment which led to a shooting intent on serious harm (13 rounds fired is no accident). To equate setting off firework to the firing of a firearm is ignorant. To state, “The issue is less about your concern for gun violence and more about your assumption that the “mob” of people at the park caused the shooting…” is ignorant. To be hung up on semantics while a gun is being shot in broad daylight near a park for children is ignorant. NIMBY Dad stated the facts, plain and simple.
    - Gene August 4, 2024 (1:32 am)
      
      A “mob” can be a any kind of group, it does not specify a racial category. It is usually characterized as a large and disorderly group of people who are angry or difficult to control It comes from the late 17th century and is an abbreviation of the word “mobile” which is short for the Latin phrase “mobile vulgus”, meaning “excitable crowd” (any color or racial group.) You’re the only person who mentioned race. I didn’t have a picture in my mind what this crowd looked like before, so thank you for enlightening me.

West Seattlite July 27, 2024 (10:03 pm)

Police were at the Seamart as well. There seemed to maybe be a white SUV with bullet holes in the rear.

WSB July 27, 2024 (10:32 pm)

That was the victim’s car, according to a radio exchange during the investigation.
- Gayle King July 29, 2024 (9:22 pm)
  
  Incorrect Report. Bullets flying not glass. I drove pass seamart and no windows were broken on the vehicles. A woman and her young children were shot at, not reported. 3 shooting locations. Random Innocent people were being shot at. No fights prior to the shooting. This is the result of Washington not holding these young adults or teens responsible for unlimited stolen kias and firearms altered from semi-auto to automatic.
  - WSB July 29, 2024 (10:26 pm)
    
    Interestingly, SPD has since provided another summary that varies to some degree from the one above with which I was initially provided earlier today, and among other things, it attributes the injury to “shrapnel.” Adding this new summary above.

Mark W Mayercin July 28, 2024 (11:10 am)

That’s my house and car in the photo. I was walking to my back door beside the hedge when I heard the shots, maybe 20 feet away. Probably connected to the big party at the playfield. Very scary. 1st gunshots I’ve witnessed living here 30 years.

Riverview Neighbor July 28, 2024 (12:22 pm)

Wow I was doing the dishes and wondered what was happening across the street, thanks for the info hope everyone is okay.

Reality Checker August 2, 2024 (6:03 pm)

@BIPOCNeighbor: From one minority to another residing in the Riverview neighborhood near the park, your political correctness blinders are obstructive. You’re leading the narrative astray from the matter at hand: “a large crowd of people, one that was disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence” (source: Oxford Dictionary) disrupted our neighbor by trashing the premises and created an environment which lead to a shooting intent on serious harm (13 rounds fired is no accident). To equate setting off firework to the firing of a firearm is ignorant. To state “The issue is less about your concern for gun violence and more about your assumption that the “mob” of people at the park caused the shooting…” is ignorant. To be hung up on semantics while a gun is being shot in broad daylight near a park for children is ignorant. NIMBY Dad stated the facts, plain and simple.

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