WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Two shot-fired incidents; two thefts

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Four West Seattle Crime Watch reports from recent days:

TWO SINGLE-SHOT GUNFIRE INCIDENTS: These summaries were released by SPD, both from Friday incidents we hadn’t previously heard about – first, in the afternoon:

At 1503 hours, a witness observed a subject standing near a vehicle with its hood up in the 2500 block SW Cambridge Street. The subject closed the vehicle hood, walked to the driver’s door area and produced a handgun. The subject proceeded to fire a single round into the air before entering the vehicle and driving away eastbound. The vehicle had one passenger, but no arguments or disturbances were heard prior to the shooting. Officers responded and located evidence. An area check was conducted for the vehicle with negative results.

Then in the late evening:

At 2316 hours, a caller reported that a light-colored sedan drove westbound on SW Barton St and come to a stop near 23rd Ave SW/SW Barton St. Moments later a male walked westbound on SW Barton St. As the male walked down the hill, an unidentified male from the vehicle fired a single shot. The male on foot reportedly fled eastbound. Officers arrived and didn’t locate any suspects or vehicles … Shell casing located.

Also, two reader reports about recent thefts:

PACKAGE THEFT: Sent by CJ:

I had a box stolen off my porch in the 6700 block of 42nd Ave SW at about 2:35 (Tuesday) afternoon. The pirates were driving what appears to be a red Hyundai Sonata.

STOLEN FROM A SKELETON: The photo and report are from Melissa in Gatewood:

Super bummed to report someone stole an arm off of our skeleton (Wednesday night). I’m reporting this because of the recent burglary in our exact neighborhood (36th/Othello) and worried this is becoming a trend.

1994 October 20, 2025 (10:55 pm)

Guns being fired is outta control! Seems to be becoming normalized behavior because it happens so frequently. But is surely frightening!

GH October 21, 2025 (8:08 am)

Teens shouldn’t steal outrageously-large skeleton arms, but they probably aren’t responsible for any burglaries. Different class of crime IMO.

Tired of the BS October 21, 2025 (12:38 pm)

I have a question for WSB… are these reports printed verbatim or edited? I’ve noticed that many of the reports lack specificity with respect to suspect description. I get it that summaries may be edited since the police may not want to “tip their hand” on the investigation or the original may be written in fashion that doesn’t translate well in a blog post. I’ve written many incident reports to include summaries and the details are important to capture since this may be the only record of an event. Unfortunately, every summary (including the original) may have bias, and then everyone who edits may introduce their own bias, which has an effect on those who read it.

WSB October 23, 2025 (12:57 pm)

If words are inside either blue-block (if you’re reading on a laptop or desktop or certain tablets) OR indented italics (if you’re reading on a phone) OR quotation marks – they’re a direct quote from the document(s). If they’re not, they’re not. Except when part of a court document, for either a probable-cause hearing or a charge, the police narratives are generally sent to us in body of an email, with redactions, so I have no way of knowing if they left anything out.

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