5:04 AM: Just got a call from someone who says there’s someone driving around Admiral shooting at vehicles. Their pickup truck has bullet damage, near 44th/Stevens, and they’ve heard of more than half a dozen others. We’ll be following up.
10:18 AM: Added a photo from the original caller, showing bullet holes in their truck. Other reports of bullet damage – and hearing the gunfire – are in comments below; the police-call log has reports of damage from locations including the 4500 block of 47th SW, the 3800 block of 51st SW, and the 4400 block of 48th SW. We have a message out to SPD to see if they have an overview summary available.
ADDED 2:40 PM: Here’s the information police provided – suggesting that the gunfire might be linked to car prowls:
*3:40 am, the original call was for shots heard near the PCC parking lot – that’s where officers found the shot-up pickup truck with “two bullet holes on the left side of the windshield (and) multiple bullet holes on the driver side window and door of the vehicle. … On further inspection of the damages spent bullet casings were found near and around the pickup truck. Bullets recovered from the scene were submitted for evidence. … A witness from a nearby residence stated that they observed two individuals come out of a vehicle. The two suspects were wearing black hoodies and were facing east in front of the truck. The description of the vehicle was a dark sedan, and a Lyft sign on the back of the vehicle. (The witness) believes that the vehicle sped off east on Stevens onto California Av Sw.
While investigating this incident, additional reports of shots being fired in the near area started to come out. Officers then directed themselves to those locations where additional damages to other vehicles were found.”
Another officer, while responding to a shots-heard report, “noticed one vehicle parked at 50 AV SW / SW Spokane ST, with its rear (drivers) door open. The vehicle … appeared to have been gone through. The second vehicle was parked at XXXX 48 AV SW, with a WA plate … This vehicle had its driver’s side window busted out and the vehicle appeared to have been gone through.” That officer then went to a shooting scene in the 3600 block of 50th SW to assist in collecting casings.
Yet another officer talked to “the registered owners of three victim vehicles, all of which appeared to have been prowled during the incident” on 51st SW. One person who heard four “loud bangs” saw an unfamiliar vehicle and a person outside it who got into a passenger seat before the vehicle left. Officers found smashed windows on three cars. The only item missing – that officers were told about – was a pair of headphones.
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