VIDEO: Police response at Duwamish Head

9:07 PM: Traffic is jammed because of a road-blocking police response at Duwamish Head. We don’t yet know what happened – leaving Alki, we got caught in it ourselves. A texter says it was a guns-drawn response.

9:48 PM: Finally made it back to HQ. Commenter N7oep notes that this resulted in damage to Seattle Police cars. Steve Pumphrey sent this video of one being towed:

Steve also sent this video of the response:

9:59 PM: Catching up via archived audio, the initial call was gunfire, and police briefly pursued the suspect; when they initially stopped her, she was reported to be “non-compliant” and tried driving away – that’s how at least one patrol car was damaged – but they soon stopped and arrested her and another person.

ADDED: We received this video link showing the moment when the suspect tried driving away:

We hope to have followup information Monday.

n7oep August 9, 2025 (9:19 pm)

Pursuit of shooting suspects. 2 police cars rammed and being towed as well as suspect vehicle. 2 suspects in custody.

Bill at Duwamish Head August 9, 2025 (9:35 pm)

Thank you for the update. I was the original tester, and guns out in front of our condo was a bit scary.

Rhonda August 9, 2025 (9:51 pm)

Unrelated, but we’re hearing very large booms to the north of us here in Arbor Heights.

TheArroyos August 10, 2025 (12:14 am)

And it continues

S Garcia August 9, 2025 (10:15 pm)

I was coming home from dinner came down California hill to turn on Harbor Ave 9:08, cops had the intersection blocked told me it was crime scene shooting redirected to come down Alkai, and they had that blocked said to go down California (head slap) bc he said those original cops are now gone but said my address location was very near the crime scene… but cops weee gone (took me 59 min to get home with log jam) … cops are on foot patrolling and looking for something now in lthe boat ramp ramp parking lot

WSB August 9, 2025 (10:42 pm)

They were looking for shell casings there – at least one was reported found. Don’t know if in relation to this.
Thomas August 10, 2025 (5:49 am)

Voters think serious about the candidates running for office. We’re just getting caught up with the number of Police officers. We don’t need Sawant 2.0 she and her followers will devastate the city! Socialist and Right Wing Nationalists we don’t want you
- Gerry Flaten August 10, 2025 (7:33 am)
  
  You are so right. We don’t need a mayor like her. We need to clean this city up
  - Kevin August 10, 2025 (4:19 pm)
    
    Let’s all remember the mess Bruce Harrell inherited from previous mayors like Durkan, Murray, and McGinn as well as council members like Sawant. He is making solid progress to turn Seattle around as well as hiring a great new police chief. Mayor Bruce deserves another term to finish what he started nearly four years ago.
- Rides the bus August 10, 2025 (8:12 am)
  
  I bet you can’t even give me one policy that from the current list of candidates running that is comparable to something Swant may have proposed. All you’re doing is using a tactic from the right. You use fear to try and scare people rather than standing on actual policy.
  - Thomas August 10, 2025 (6:40 pm)
    
    I bet you I can! Im a well.informed voter.I’ve read her platform There is no way I could vote for a candidate who donated and supported Sawant.The damage she did to Seattle is unforgivable. And were not the only ones India denied her application for a visa.
- Rides the bus August 10, 2025 (8:46 am)
  
  I bet you can’t give me one policy that from the current list of candidates running that is comparable to something Swant may have proposed. All you’re doing is using a tactic from the right. You use fear to try and scare people rather than standing on actual policy.
- CW August 10, 2025 (8:54 am)
  
  Please speak for yourself
- Helpermonkey August 10, 2025 (9:25 am)
  
  Y’all really need to stop beating that tired old “SPD was defunded” drum.
- brizone August 10, 2025 (9:29 am)
  
  The right wing nationalists are in the SPD. The call is coming from inside the house.

grrrr August 10, 2025 (10:21 am)

If I had a dollar for every car on Alki whose driver had a semi-automatic tucked under his seat, I could retire.

My two cents August 10, 2025 (2:23 pm)

Assume $70k retirement spend annually. So, in 1 year there are 70,000 people with semi-automatic on Alki. Daily average would be around 190 … or 7.96 per hour … if you want full retirement, extrapolate out with the appropriate years/appreciate expectations. Regardless, don’t think your math quite “works” out …

ThankyouSPD❤️ August 10, 2025 (10:27 am)

Thank you, SPD for an effective response to what was going on here. Very appreciative for the life risking work that you do every day. Bless you.

1994 August 10, 2025 (10:54 am)

These people with guns don’t understand you can’t fire them at will or to threaten/scare another person……why do they even have guns if they have no self control? If this was a self defense situation why would the gun firer try to evade the police?

Derp August 10, 2025 (12:26 pm)

I’m going out on a limb here, but I would bet $$ on drugs or alcohol were involved
Anne August 10, 2025 (1:53 pm)

Ya think?
Rhonda August 10, 2025 (3:34 pm)

Violent criminals like this obviously don’t care about laws of any kind. Trying to evade police in a vehicle itself is a felony.