WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Beach Drive gunfire

10:18 PM: Police are investigating gunfire in the “Healthy Street” section of Beach Drive SW. An officer told dispatch they found casings in the street, just south of Benton, after 911 callers reported gunfire around 10 pm. One person said they saw the flashes as shots were fired from someone in a black Mercedes or Acura which subsequently headed south on Beach Drive; they told police four people were in the car but did not offer any descriptions. If you have any information, the incident # is 2025-345255.

10:33 PM: Callers reported “about 10 shots” to 911; so far, an officer just told dispatch, “we got 16.”

Actualperson November 25, 2025 (5:36 am)

Were they shooting at someone? Or a house or just in the air-or water??

BDR November 25, 2025 (6:40 am)

16 shots? Wow. No damage reported? How scary for people who live nearby.

Shadowtripper November 25, 2025 (8:44 am)

Cameras, license plates required on front and back of vehicles that must be readable, vehicle safety checks (similar to smog checks some years ago) requiring proof of insurance and ownership. Allow police to stop any motor vehicle that is not displaying license plates and current registration tags. Just thinking?

WSB November 25, 2025 (9:42 am)

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They ARE “allowed” to stop drivers for those reasons, and they do, daily.
- Scofflawer November 25, 2025 (10:27 am)
  
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  Yes they are allowed to enforce laws, if they so desire.
  But it is now discretionary according to officers who I have asked about enforcement.
  Try to report a vehicle and in my experiences, it is futile waste of time.
  
  I would like to see the statistics for those daily citations, but they too seem evasive.
  - WSB November 25, 2025 (12:00 pm)
    
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    Look at the SPD data map and look for “traffic” calls. When we’ve seen them doing stop-sign-runner enforcement, usually pulling over several drivers in a short span of time before moving on, it shows up there. There’s also a data portal that registers types of calls but it’s a couple days delayed.

1994 November 25, 2025 (10:21 pm)

Just the usual gun fire which is very scary and frankly has become normalized. So many bullet casings are collected every week. Someone at the police department must be keeping track of the volume of casings collected?? Where is the outrage?? The happy trigger finger people need to be caught, all their weapons taken away, and get a consequence for their potentially deadly behavior.