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I-5 was closed for several hours this past Friday as police arrested two men who had been firing assault rifles from the 92nd Street overpass over I-5. Local residents heard shots fired at around 9:30 p.m. Upon arrival, police heard gunfire within 50 yards and saw tracer rounds fired from a wooded area. A SWAT team was called in, I-5 was shut down, and roadblocks were set up. The suspects, who have not yet been named, were found and arrested after a two-hour search.

It's not shoot-'em-up Friday, but still one man is dead and another on the run after an early morning shooting in the Rainer Valley area. Seattle police officers responded to multiple 911 calls Thursday morning around 3 a.m., reporting a disturbance between two men that ended with 4 to 6 gunshots fired in the area of Rainier Avenue South and South Byron Street. The victim, a 31-year-old male, was rushed to Harborview, where he later died of his gunshot wounds. Police are on the hunt for the shooting suspect, who is still at large and believed to have driven off in a pick-up truck.

We are seeing some sort of odd trend or angst recently, as more shootings take place on Friday. Once again the SPD Blotter notes another early morning Friday shooting, this time in an alleyway in Columbia City across from a hip hop show. Witnesses from a nearby bar at Rainier Ave S and S Hudson Street heard a single gunshot, the bullet striking the victim, a 25-year-old male, in the abdomen. A local citizen later drove the victim to Harborview. Police report the gang unit is now looking into this case.

Police gang units are on the look out for the owner of a suspicious red bandanna, seen thrown from a white Chevrolet speeding away from the scene of today's shooting in the parking lot of King County Youth Service Center on 12th Avenue and Alder. The first reports came in around 10:30 a.m. this morning that five shots were fired in the Central District parking lot, injuring one. The victim was a young male in his late teens, who suffered a non-life-threatening gun shot wound to his hip. Police believe there may be up to three suspects involved in the shooting; the case is still on-going.

Neighbors in Kirkland's Juanita neighborhood first heard an argument stirring last night around 10 p.m., later followed by the sounds of gunshots fired outside a residential home. Police responded to find the victim, a 30-year-old man covered in blood with gunshot wounds to his face. He was later rushed to Harborview and is in serious condition. Police took into custody a twenty-something male from the scene, who both knew the victim and is suspected of shooting him. The scene and the motive of the shooting is under investigation by the tight-lipped police department.

Around 6:30 a.m. this morning a jogger discovered a male in his mid-20s lying lifeless on the sidewalk outside the Extended StayAmerica hotel in the 13300 block of Stone Avenue North. Police responded to the scene shortly thereafter, only to discover the young man had been shot and killed. Homicide detectives are still investigating.

• Monday evening, Seattle police discovered an unidentified human body that had drowned in Lake Washington and washed ashore the beach of Lake Cottage Park.
• Good news for ORCA card holders: Seattle Transit Blog says the Seattle Streetcar will be adding ORCA readers to stations starting next year.

Yesterday, a Seattle police SWAT team arrested a 17-year-old male in a Ballard home on the 900 block of NW 60th Street, who they are "pretty confident" is the gunman in Sunday's Pit Stop Express (15th Ave. NW and NW 58th St.) robbery and murder. The juvenile--whose name will not be released--was booked into the Youth Service Center while being investigated for the murder of 28-year-old convenience store clerk Manish Melwani of Lynnwood.

The worst thing about the headline "6 injured in overnight shootings" is that it doesn't take into account a murder at a Ballard gas station. Just to recap, over this weekend, a man was shot in the leg following an argument at Second and Pine (while the Torchlight Parade was going on), two people were shot at 1 a.m. at 208th and Pacific Highway South in SeaTac, and three men were shot at about 2 a.m. at the 1200 block of Westlake Avenue North. Then at around 6:30 a.m. Sunday came the gas station robbery and homicide.

Adding to this week's lamentable streak of violence, we woke up to find a report from Seattle 911 that a man had been killed in a hit-and-run accident last night near Cherry and Sixth in Downtown. The body was found just past midnight. According to the SPD Blotter, there are no witnesses at this point, but "officers observed a security camera on the east side of the Seattle Metropolitan Tower that might cover the intersection."

As though the city is slowly going mad in the dry and oppressive heat (for Seattle), yet another brutal killing occurred last night in Leschi. The Central District News has the most detailed account yet, but in brief, an altercation earlier in the day led to a shooting around the 800 block of 32nd Ave. S shortly after 8:30 p.m. The victim was shot as he drove by the shooter's house. A police stand-off ensued that lasted for more than five hours, until SWAT officers determined the suspect was not in the house. He was arrested early this morning in West Seattle, near Delridge and Andover.

• The swashbuckling Seafair Pirates landed on the beaches of West Seattle on Saturday, officially kicking off Seafair 2009.
• The police are on the lookout for a four-door red Saturn or Chevy Cavalier with "fancy hubcaps" that they believe was involved in a shooting Saturday night on the 8100 block of 48th Avenue South. No one was injured, just a car and empty home found with a few bullet holes.
• No one's sayin' there's a ban on washing your car at home, here in Washington. But if you happen to suds up the trusty automobile, the powers that be strongly recommend washing the car over gravel or grass to filter the dirty water.

• A 63-year-old Marysville woman and foster mother was shot in her home, at point blank range, by her 70-year-old boyfriend--in front of her three teenagers and two family friends. It's reported the couple was in the process of separating and he was moving out.
• Seattle waters are being been taken over by ridiculously large sea creatures--first an 8-foot long, 100-lb. man-eating Humboldt Squid was caught off West Seattle shores. Now a 3-foot-in-diameter Lion’s Mane Jellyfish--the largest known species of jellyfish in the world--has been reported to have washed ashore at Three Tree Point.
• Belltown's newest coffee crusader, Bedlam Coffee has decided to scale back on their 24-hour coffee-making hours on Friday and Saturday nights, adopting a more fitting closing time of 3 a.m. instead.

      

• Friday evening, Fremont was over taken by 5,000 zombies. The mass flash mob of the living dead mashed world records and made little children cry.
• Naturally the Fourth of July holiday brought illegal fireworks and even firework explosions that got a bit out of hand, not including the pitched battle on a Westlake dock provoked by foul-mouthed partiers.

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Released via the Seattle Police Department Twitter feed, officers shot a man yesterday at Greenwood Ave. N and Holman Road, who is suspected in yesterday's Shoreline bank robbery and a string of other bank robberies. Prior to shots being fired, officers had spotted the bank robbery suspect stopped in traffic at Holman and 3rd Ave. with a stolen pick-up truck. A team of police cars quickly began to box in the truck. Trying to flee, the suspect rammed the stolen pick-up into a police car and a car carrying a father with his kids at the corner of Greenwood Ave. N and Holman Road. Police fired four shots, stalling the suspect who sustained injuries to his arm. The family of three was uninjured.

Seattle 911 reports that there was a shooting during an armored truck robbery at the Lakewood Wal-Mart, leaving the truck driver dead and possibly a second Loomis employee injured. The two shooters fled in what may have been a white four-door sedan. (Thanks for narrowing things down, eyewitnesses.) NWCN/KING says, "The suspects are described as black males. One is 6 feet tall with an average build wearing a white hat with colored trim across the bill, a long sleeve white shirt and black pants. The second suspect is 6-feet to 6-feet 2-inches tall. He is wearing a blue baseball hat and a blue short sleeve button up short over a white t-shirt and blue jeans."

• A friendly reminder that Mother's Day is on Sunday. Yes, this Sunday. With that said, if you still need to make brunch or dinner reservations check out Seattle Met Magazine's round-up of the best local places to take Mom.
• Diamonds turn out not to be recession-proof forever. TechFlash reports Seattle's online retailer Blue Nile saw sales drop 11 percent to $62.4 million in the first quarter. On the bright side, maybe your mom can benefit from a "declining diamond price environment."
• Ballard's Bastille Café and Bar is set to open by Bastille Day. Actually, by June 29. The French fooderie is looking for waitstaff, says MyBallard, and will offer "Free Frites Day" the Sunday before they open.

A teenager was shot by a gun his stepbrother both obtained and stored at Highline High School. So can the Highline school district be held partially responsible for his death? How about the stepbrother's family? The victim's mom, Michele Lucero, thinks so: long-distance from New Mexico, she's suing the district, her kid's father, and his wife for failing to divine the future. Er, technically she's calling it "failing to secure the gun" that issued the bullet that killed her son. This is a fascinating twist in what has been a complex, emotional case since Michael Miller was shot by his stepbrother nearly three years ago. What will it mean for the district, we wonder, if Lucero wins her lawsuit? Will it change anything?

Over at Capitol Hill Seattle they're going all i-team over the Howell airgun shooting. The Rainier Valley Post has got hints to where all the Valentine hearts are hidden in Hillman City. MyBallard has the pre-opening news on Green Go Food, "fast food with a conscience." And Publicola busts new HUDster and inveterate Twitterer Ron Sims for his faulty real estate prediction.

Man, this CHS post is the most thrilling thing we've read in ages--police have nabbed the BB gun sniper at Boylston and Howell. We just reported on a tipster yesterday saying the guy was shooting at pedestrians as well as windows. Listen to this: Update: Officer advises that "rounds are being fired." "Get inside! We've got a man with a gun on the third floor." How long before the movie comes out?

A new corrections officer in Pierce County has been charged with second degree assault for freaking out on the road in Burien and pulling a gun on some civilians. It wasn't an official Department of Corrections gun; the man was carrying his own weapon, which he pointed at a couple (and their kid!) when their existence on the road pissed him off. So soon after watching the horrifying footage of the BART shooting in California earlier this month, we have zero tolerance for cops gone wacko. Corrections officers especially need to be able to keep cool, fair and calm, on the road or on the job; people's lives and the reputation of the local corrections system depend on it. And after reporting on thousands of lay-offs in the region, it's frustrating to hear about "paid administrative leave" for the officer who had what sounds like an psychotic break. Get that man out of the force and into heavy-duty therapy, and make him pay for it himself. Bah.

Yesterday Slog mentioned that the Mission Inn apartments had been hit by BB gun fire; located at Boylston and East Howell, the Mission Inn had a third-floor apartment's three windows and balcony door hit with a more powerful BB gun than we were allowed when we were a kid.

A 26-year-old man was shot in the Junction in West Seattle just after midnight last night, and around 1 a.m., Harborview doctors announced that the victim did not survive his multiple gunshot wounds. The SPD is looking for three suspects in the case, but as of this morning they don't have anyone in custody related to the shooting. According to West Seattle Blog's breaking reports, the victim ran into Talaricos after he was shot; it sounds like the fatal gunshots also led to some property damage on the facade of the restaurant as well as inside. Homicide and CSI units are currently investigating. We haven't found any mention of the gang unit's involvement.

Seattlest woke up at the breaka breaka this morning and turned on the news to find out there was a shooting outside Benaroya Hall last night around 11 p.m. According to the Times, police found a man in his "40s [...] lying on the sidewalk near a bus stop between Union and University streets with facial wounds." The man was taken to Harborview and his condition is unknown.

In the latest flare-up of violence on the streets of Seattle, three men were shot by a gunman from an alleyway in Pioneer Square at 2:30 a.m. today. Two of the men are in critical condition at Harborview, and the third has been released with minor injuries. While the details are nowhere near clear about the gunman's motivation, the SPD seems fairly certain the flare-up was not random and citizens should not--repeat, should not--be concerned about getting shot from an alleyway unless they're involved in something sketchy. (Is there ever a perfectly legitimate, compelling reason to be hanging out on a corner in Pioneer Square at 2:30 in the morning, we wonder? In the rain, no less?)

Carlos Bernadez has been charged with murder in the first degree for his direct involvement with the Chop Suey shooting last weekend. Bernadez was the man police allege opened fire from the side door of the venue, killing one and injuring two others. Roger Allen LaBranche, the first man to be arrested in conjunction with the night's events, has been charged with assault and drug-dealing. As the investigation unfolds, LaBranche may be charged with something more serious; for now, this charge allows the county to keep him as a suspect for accomplice in the murder of 29-E while they continue to clarify what exactly happened to lead up to Saturday night's violence.

CD News has an update on the Chop Suey shooting that took place over the weekend. They say it was the result of a "long-running dispute" between one of the victims and one of the shooters (a dispute that "included a drive-by shooting" says Seattle 911). "The first of the two suspects, 25-year-old Roger Labranche of Everett, was arrested at the scene of the crime on Sunday morning after he had been grabbed and detained by clubgoers in the aftermath of the shooting. The second, Carlos Bernandez, 18, was arrested by the SWAT team at his parent's residence in Seattle yesterday afternoon following a stakeout. He later confessed his role in the shootings to police." The two suspects are being held on $2 million bail.

The group was clear on how important it is for them to respond proactively to the weekend's violence, and organized a few specific ways they plan to do that on a city-wide level. The consensus formed through a respectful but lively debate, informed both by those who had been at the show on Saturday and by senior members of the community who have seen the cycle of anti-hiphop sentiment related to tragic waves of violence rise and fall in Seattle before. Everyone agreed that in the next few weeks, one of the most important things they can do is to support the victims and their families as much as possible. Details are forthcoming about how the community can help, but for now, friends and family are rallying around each other to get through the next crucial hours.

There's a noisy debate going on in the comments on both Slog and KOMO regarding the cops and lethal versus non-lethal actions.

We're irritated enough about people who were too cheap to fork over the cash for a hotel room or cab fare home after drinking that next year, we might resort to shooting drunk people's cars with paintballs, like this guy from Kennewick did. Kennewick Man did end up going to jail for his creative problem-solving, though, so paintballs might not be the best course of action after all. Please drive safely, city. Driving drunk isn't worth the risk.