UPDATE: June 23, 6:55 PM Force Investigation detectives have released a crime scene diagram and photos that correspond to some of the annotations in the sketch. Detectives are also releasing the transcripts of the involved officers interviews. Officer Anderson is not depicted in the diagram since his position was in the doorway to the… [ Keep reading ]
Detectives are investigating after a 15-year-old girl was injured by gunfire this afternoon in South Seattle. The injuries are not considered life-threatening. The victim was in the 11200 block of 59th Avenue South this afternoon at about 3:00 pm when she was struck by gunfire. She was transported to a nearby… [ Keep reading ]
Police are investigating a strange dispute between two men on Capitol Hill early this morning, which ended when a a 24-year-old man was shot in the leg. Officers responded to the 1700 block of 12th Avenue around 2:00 AM for reports of shots fired. The victim of the shooting, unprompted,… [ Keep reading ]
Over the past 15 years, SPD Police Horse Harvest has become a fixture in the city’s downtown core. He is easily the most recognizable member of the Mounted Patrol. Harvest will be retiring to a pleasant farm upstate at the Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center. Little Bit is an organization… [ Keep reading ]
Detectives are searching for two men seen running from a burning South Park coffee stand late Tuesday. The stand was damaged but there were no injuries in the incident. Officers and Seattle Fire responded to 14th Avenue South and South Cloverdale Street Tuesday night just before 11:00 pm for a call… [ Keep reading ]
DNA evidence led SPD Homicide detectives to a person of interest and ultimate arrest of a 46-year-old man in South Carolina this week in connection with a double murder at a Belltown apartment in January 2016. On January 25, 2016, Seattle police responded to the Bell Tower apartment complex in… [ Keep reading ]
For over a month, SPD detectives have been searching for Miles, a one-year-old pit bull, after he was stolen from his foster family. Miles’s foster father let a friend take the dog out of his downtown apartment around 6:30 AM on May 2nd to let him do his business. Miles and the… [ Keep reading ]
Officers deployed pepper spray to break up a large fight and arrested three people near Occidental Park this afternoon following the protests downtown. Officers were visible this morning and early afternoon as they worked to ensure the safety of two different groups today. One organization had a permit to hold a… [ Keep reading ]
An 18-year-old man is in custody after he was arrested in connection with the homicide that happened in the 300 block of NW 47th Street Friday. At around 9:30 pm, a family member discovered the body of the 55-year-old female victim inside the house they shared and called 911. The victim… [ Keep reading ]
Officers arrested two car prowlers in separate incidents overnight. In the first call, officers responded to a report of a man breaking into a red SUV near Southwest Avalon Way and Southwest Spokane Street just after 11 p.m. Thursday. Officers arrived in the area and found the 35-year-old suspect sitting… [ Keep reading ]
