Officers with the recently formed Community Response Group arrested five individuals Thursday night after they ignored multiple dispersal orders and continued to push Dumpsters and other items into the street. At approximately 10:20 PM, after issuing several orders to disperse, officers arrested five people for obstructing and resisting near 12th… [ Keep reading ]
South Precinct officers responded to reports of a shooting in the Georgetown Industrial neighborhood and found the victim in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to his leg. The victim was transported to Harborview Medical Center by Seattle Fire medics with a non-life threatening injury. Just before 5:00 PM,… [ Keep reading ]
Homicide detectives are currently investigating after a man was killed by gunfire this afternoon in the parking lot of an apartment complex in North Seattle. At about 2:50 PM, officers responded to multiple calls of shots fired and a person down in the parking lot of the apartment complex in… [ Keep reading ]
“I want to thank the SPD detectives, and our federal partners, for their extraordinary work in continuing to investigate this crime, and for identifying, locating, and arresting the suspects involved. I appreciate the extensive hours necessary to make these arrests, and in the effort put forth to locate the weapons stolen. We are eager to recover the still-missing weapons and ask… [ Keep reading ]
Update: 10/16/20 Detectives with the Force Investigations Team have released body-worn, dashcam, and surveillance video from the ongoing investigation into the Thursday officer-involved shooting in South Lake Union. The suspect can be seen in the video using a burning piece of lumber to attack an officer in his patrol car…. [ Keep reading ]
Seattle University is administering the 6th annual citywide Seattle Public Safety Survey, collecting qualitative and quantitative data about perceptions of crime and safety from those who live and/or work in Seattle. The survey is accessible at publicsafetysurvey.org from October 15th through November 30th and is available in Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, English, Korean, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya and Vietnamese. A report on the survey results will be… [ Keep reading ]