WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Another gunfire investigation

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11:28 PM: The second West Seattle gunfire investigation in 12 hours is happening right now. 911 callers have reported a bullet through a residential window near 34th/Raymond and shell casings found near 35th/Findlay. Police are in the area. No injuries reported, so far.

11:32 PM: There’s also a report of another residence with bullet damage near 34th/Graham.

11:35 PM: Police are closing at least one southbound lane of 35th at Findlay while they investigate. (Side note, the commander and a sergeant from SPD’s Gun Violence Reduction Unit were guests at tonight’s Southwest Precinct Advisory Council meeting, held in High Point – our story, with video, will be out tomorrow.)

12:45 AM: As noted in comments, more casings turned up along 35th further north. There also was a later report of possible gunfire in Upper Fauntleroy/Fauntlee Hills – one caller heard something from 39th/Henderson – but we haven’t heard of evidence/confirmation in that one.

Westsea4eva June 3, 2025 (11:32 pm)

I’m in the 7500 block of 32nd and I definitely heard the gun fire. Rapid fire. Many shots.

Livesbycamplong June 3, 2025 (11:38 pm)

We are off 35th and Findlay. I was checking the police scanner and my neighbor sent me this link before I could find anything. Nice reporting WSB! It was multiple three round bursts for 10-20 seconds or so.

Doug June 3, 2025 (11:40 pm)

Well, this confirms my worst fear. 99% sure they had a glock with a giggle switch.

Spoon June 4, 2025 (8:48 am)

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100% heard it so clearly
Rhonda June 5, 2025 (1:20 pm)

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Those giggle switches have caused a lot of crying.

GatewoodRsd June 3, 2025 (11:43 pm)

We heard a lot of gun shots at 11:19 in Gatewood. Wasn’t sure of the direction and kept waiting to hear sirens so very much appreciate this post. Glad no injuries reported. So much gunfire!

Arch Stanton June 3, 2025 (11:45 pm)

Why do you people put up with this?? Having moved from “the Wild West republican hellhole” that is Texas, we don’t have nearly this amount of gun violence. This is obscene. Lock these criminals up!!

Hillsry June 4, 2025 (6:24 am)

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I’m from Oklahoma and I agree. This is absolutely insane.
- Steve June 4, 2025 (6:22 pm)
  
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  You’re right about locking these criminals up, but an actor was just shot in San Antonio, had his horse burned down, and they killed his dog. All for having a male lover. So get off your righteous soap box.
Concerned Citizen June 4, 2025 (6:33 am)

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That’s false. Being a former Texan, that state has an equal and far larger amount of gun violence than here. More than one death due to gun violence happens every day in Houston alone. With that said, I agree, the gun violence in West Seattle is intolerable.
- T Rex June 4, 2025 (6:48 pm)
  
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  If you are a “former Texan” then I feel bad for you. Never heard of a former Texan ? Many of us from the great state no longer count Houston as Texas, Austin running a close 2nd. 😄. I have had a great career in Seattle in what was once a great city, I loved it here but no longer and it is so very sad, West Seattle has caught up to the norm.
Lucy June 4, 2025 (6:59 am)

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Because you have to assume that everyone in Texas is armed and will shoot you if you start anything. An armed society is a polite society.
- CloseEnough June 4, 2025 (1:11 pm)
  
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  That’s ludicrous, Lucy. An armed society leads to more violence, not politeness. You’re just parroting pro-gun propaganda without thinking because you want validation. Owning a gun gives many a false sense of confidence, and when they get frustrated or feel slighted, guess what they often turn to as a means to “get even”? That’s not politeness, that’s turning to violence. “I want to live in a society where I’m afraid of making an honest mistake.” What do you think people living in fear do? Fear doesn’t lead to politeness…
- Jort June 4, 2025 (4:46 pm)
  
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  We’re one of the most armed countries on the planet. Are we more polite? Or do we have higher gun deaths? You tell me.
Kt June 4, 2025 (8:04 am)

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Gun deaths in Texas rose from 2,848 in 2014 to 4,630 in 2022, a disturbing 63% increase. Not surehow that is safer than here
bill June 4, 2025 (8:23 am)

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Gee golly, why haven’t we ever thought of that? Tell me, do the police in Texas do the hard work of finding criminals, or do they just lock up the first unlucky souls they stumble across, no questions asked?
Terremoto June 4, 2025 (9:22 am)

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After visiting a friend’s family and friends many times in Texas, I learned that there is a lot of violence with guns used as threats behind closed doors. Especially with spouses. So perhaps they don’t pull the trigger but they still are used for violence. I also learned that many men have huge arsenals in a back bedroom. Not just a single gun for personal safety. Geesh.
Jay June 4, 2025 (10:27 am)

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Texas has dramatically higher gun violence, it just isn’t as visible to affluent suburbanites who live in wider sprawl. That’s the disconnect – red areas have incredibly high violence and murder rates as well as more drug addiction issues, but it’s not as visible to the average person. Meanwhile in cities people are living closer together and even though there is less overall violence and addiction, it’s more visible to the average person.

Dave June 4, 2025 (12:08 am)

Just heard 4 or 5 shots in Lincoln Park direction. We live .7mi SE in Arbor Heights, so hard to know for sure. We can hear Ferry idle when docked.

Doug June 4, 2025 (12:18 am)

Found multiple shell casings in front of my house. Cops called, they’re collecting them now.

Sleepless June 4, 2025 (6:43 am)

Heard gunfire around midnight from 38th and Barton.

TreeHouse June 4, 2025 (7:59 am)

So glad Rob Saka gave us a whole lecture on sidewalks and streetlights at the last “community” safety meeting because clearly, that’s stopping the gunfire. Never mind that the High Point library at 34th/Raymond already has plenty of both. I’m sure we’ll get another hollow, jargon-filled response soon that reads like some soulless corporate LinkedIn post. Thanks for continuing to do absolutely nothing Rob.

Steve June 4, 2025 (6:28 pm)

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If you were at the town hall last month, the dude spent most of the time lauding himself. Let’s make him a one-term councilman.

Sunny.206 June 4, 2025 (8:42 am)

Pretty sure the shots in upper Fauntleroy were fired at or around the water tank on Barton, 5 shot were very clear. Sounds like they were in a car with reports of so many location.

Giving up June 4, 2025 (9:05 am)

We live 2 blocks down from this on Raymond. Heard this last night, was terrified, but ironically relieved that it didn’t sound like an automatic weapon (like the last shooting). We’ve had gunshots 2 blocks from our house, in all 3 directions around it, just in the past month and a half. There’s no safe place to walk here anymore. What the heck is the city doing to help prevent these?

W Seattle June 4, 2025 (10:37 am)

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The mayor is up for reelection this year. I often wonder how the heck the violence continues, graffiti travels farther and further through the city and homelessness is endemic. I think that Bruce needs to be pushed into action through the ballot box. Notably also, Rob Saka was not present at the community safety meeting last night, sadly.

RPHighPoint June 4, 2025 (10:19 am)

The British band, XTC, offered a simple solution to the gun problem with their 1982 song, Melt The Guns, even then addressing the USA’s gun infatuation. It’s a catchy little tune. “Programs of violence, as entertainment, brings the disease into your room. We know the germ, which is man-made in metal, is really a key to your own tomb. Prevention is better than cure, bad apples affecting the pure, you’ll gather your senses I’m sure. Then agree to, melt the guns, melt the guns, and never more to fire them. Melt the guns, melt the guns, and never more desire them. Children will want them, mothers supply them, as long as your killers are heroes. And all the media will fiddle while Rome burns, acting like modern-time Neros. Prevention is better than cure, bad apples affecting the pure. You’ll gather your senses I’m sure, then agree to, melt the guns, melt the guns. I’m speaking to the Justice League of America, the U S of A, hey you, yes you in particular! When it comes to the judgement day and you’re standing at the gates with your weaponry, you dead, go down on one knee, clasp your hands in prayer and start quoting me, ’cause we say… Our father we’ve managed to contain the epidemic in one place, now, let’s hope they shoot themselves instead of others. Help to civilize the race now. We’ve trapped the cause of the plague, in the land of the free and the home of the brave. If we listen quietly we can hear them shooting from grave to grave. You ought to melt the guns, and never more to fire them. Melt the guns and never more desire them.”

Not gonna work June 4, 2025 (12:32 pm)

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Didn’t you see the Simpsons episode where this happened? They melted the guns down and turned them into playground toys. Then the undead zombie cowboys rose up and took over with their old school revolvers. But I’ve heard of crazier things.

Paul Hage June 4, 2025 (4:00 pm)

About 10:30 PM – a few gun shots – I’m at 34th and Findlay. It is already illegal to fire a gun in public. How I wish we could connect the brass to the gun and its owner and enact a mandatory year in jail for every shot in public.

Alex June 4, 2025 (5:18 pm)

This is the second shooting in recent months in this very library parking lot, with long-reported gang graffiti still on the lot’s fences (neighboring houses were hit, too, but they apparently are more willing to follow the law for graffiti removal than the city is). So, if we’ve identified this parking lot – and the surrounding neighborhood, which has seen multiple shootings, recently – as a crime hot spot – perhaps SPD can explain why they chose to blow off a disturbance call at 10:34 p.m., shortly before the bullets hurtled through neighbor’s windows? What does “data-driven policing” look like to our self-proclaimed data-obsessed City Council representative, Rob Saka and SPD officers? To me, data-driven policing would mean, “if you get a disturbance call from the exact place where multiple instances of gun violence have recently occurred, maybe send an officer down.” Or, I guess, they can just show up and take pictures of casings. Who am I to say? Let the data tell us where to take the pictures, maybe?