Man shot outside Rainier Beach Safeway, search on for gunman

What were the homies disrispecting each other again!! SARCASM

I get that people some times do not have control over where they live due to economics and cirsumstance. However, to allow their kids to adopt the thug life is more than lame and down right destructive. I'm not going to condemn all the residents of Rainer Valley as not everyone there is a thug. Shame on the parents who don't find constructive outlets for their kids. There are lots of programs and opportunities to help shape a positive growth experience if you want it.

 

Being poor or disadvantaged doesn't mean you have to be trashy just like being rich doesn't mean someone has class.

"A description was not provided."

 

Yeah......sure.........

This is my old neighborhood and I had hoped when I returned to the area I would reside in the area again. Why I do not has nothing to do with "fear" or owning a weapon or lack of policing or someone rapping outside of safeway (when did that become scary?) I don't live there because of high rent at properties that used to house low income individuals. Most of us got pushed out of our neighborhood and what remains are desperate people trying to pay rent and feed their families. I know because I know the person who was shot. 

 

Several years ago, the city, county, and state realized the increased value of living closer to the city center and near Lake Washington. The bulldozing of the housing projects began based upon economic gains and not upon a secured social infrastructure. Indeed, this community went from being focused upon for community growth to criminal activities over monetary values of real estate that was only represented by a 40% home ownership. My previous home there was removed for rapid transit rail and the owner of the property bought it and waited for the city to buy it from his construction company. He then won bids for work on the same light rail.

 

The many businesses that were locally owned were based upon dispora economies and had to relocate themselves into other affordable neighborhoods (North Federal Way) in order to continue. Some managed to move over to White Center which is currently undergoing transition into an upscale community, so they will have to relocate.

 

The employment of these folks that you are so fearful of and so resolute to remove from the City of Seattle barely eek out a living caring for you, since most are your janitors, dishwashers, maids, etc. It is horrible that the only resolution sought by many is to remove these people from their homes and neighborhoods so that you don't have to see the man who cleans your toilet, works two or more jobs to make rent, cannot provide familiar support towards education since they are not present in the home enough hours to do so. 

 

And, until you or I realize our social responsibility towards others, these problems will only continue regardless of gun laws or policing, bulldozing down affordable housing, or rap music being banned (had to throw that in). Instead of pointing fingers, we need to ask ourselves how we can provide a stronger social infrastructure that will overtime allow parents to be at home more, schools that help both the parent and child to higher success, medical and dental care to adults that cannot afford the new "affordable" healthcare package.(Like myself, with an income far below the poverty level $1212 monthly, the state wants $300 for their healthcare package with a 20% co-pay. My rent in want you define as affordable housing or ghetto as we call it is $725 and we pay the properties utilities.) 

 

So until everyone wants, to come to the table and say openly, "How can we change the social infrastructure so as to provide a quality of life to all and usurp the desperation and challenges of the low-income without disenfranchising them further?" we will not see a healthy community stabilize in the area.

 

With the sadness of this shooting, and all the others within the year, perhaps it will motivate everyone to come together as a community to solve the deterioration of the social infrastructure its outfall.

Hmmmm, I guess the shooter was one of the upstanding citizens in Seattle that was too late to turn in his gun.

There is a secret for more police on the street, quit voting down taxes. If you want services, you have to pay for them.  Clallum County has the worse meth use per capita than any other county in the state. On most evenings there will be several cars sitting in the Safeway Parking lot on Lincoln st with a gathering of teens and the sweet smell of pot and meth flows freely. The police drive thru the parking lot once an hour and scatter the dopers. The cops know who the dealers are but have to catch them in the act. Our jail and Juvenile facility are full.

A note on taxes, out city balanced their budget and had no layoffs this last time. Our County did not balance theirs, we lost 6 law enforcement officers and 1 judge. We will lose more at the end of this year, the tax

es are not being voted in.

The truth is that the bangers are here to stay unfortunately.   I am thankful that I do not to live in a community that is overrun with zombies (although some are around).  We do have to travel through some of the more infested areas to get to work or to shop, but believe me, I am on guard all the time when I'm on the road and at my destination.  Call me paranoid if you want to, but at least I can protect myself and my loved ones from attacks.  I hope everyone out the that has a soul is doing the same.

I stopped for gas at that Safeway gas station and it was so scary I stopped pumping gas at $6, and got the hell out of there.

Might be better if people stopped making ridiculous and racist assumptions about this neighborhood and started helping the situation by standing together against the sick element that is collecting here. The reason these problems are collecting here is simple: public neglect in terms of funding and community energy.  There are other reasons too, but it all starts with community investment.

 

Take the policing out of this area, remove the development money and yea, you'll see crime and guns. 

 

Refusing to help disarm your neighborhood and the punks with guns will only escalate matters until we're all cowering as we all start shooting at eachother.

 

Hiding in our homes, not confronting the trash when we see it won't help either.

 

Finally, if Mayor McGinn really wants to do something about the problem down here, he'll start by bringing back the precinct sub-station vehicle with around the clock support...

 

Do we really want to give up our neighborhood to this?

Extra emphasis this weekend?? There have been no less than 6 fatal shootings within 150 yards of this very spot within the last 6 months. That is not an exaggeration. Approximately a dozen shootings total within a 3 block radius of this area.

SPD ignores this end of town. Response times are the worst I've ever even heard of. It took one hour and 5 minutes to get a SPD officer to the scene where I had disarmed a 13 yr old kid w/ a 9mm auto pistol and was surrounded by his thug friends..

 It took over 2 hours to get an officer to respond to a 5 car crash w/ injuries on Renton Ave.     King County officers do a great job comparatively, at the City limits just a few blocks South in Skyway.........makes it tougher to swallow.

 

 It's not the officers fault. It's their leadership....and it starts w/ McGinn. 

 

As far as the Safeway goes, it doesn't help that their security people rap w/ their homeys in ebonics right at their post at the front door. It's very intimidating. I've seen people walk toward the store and turn around and go back to  the safety of their cars and leave. Store staff don't confront peoples' bad behaviour in the store. The welfare mommies from the projects let their rugrats ride their little trikes and bikes w/ training wheels right in the store. It's a real rathole. 

I have a sneeky suspicion that the shooter is posessing his firearm illegally. Please tell me more about how tighter gun control measures will work.

Must be the weekend in slumtown...

Time to go Neanderthal on these gang members.

Gunman must have forgotten to turn in his "gat" at McGoo's buyback! Where's Lakeview to make excuses for him?

They probably fled up to skyway. I wouldn't be surprised if they found them there.

Just a normal friday night in the hood.

Man, that Rainier Valley nightlife just keeps starting earlier and earlier.

Maybe the next buy back should be at that Safeway parking lot because thugs who have guns usually lack a drivers license and car to drive to the last place under the freeway.  Have the buy-back program take place in the heart of the gun crime problem areas and you will see a lot more guns than having it where police want it.

This video is exactly the type of mentality that most 12 - 40 yr olds have in South Seattle.

 

The loser that filmed this particular rap video is now in jail awaiting trial for the recent Jack in the Box murder on Rainier Ave.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBGnrpD4JjI&feature=player_embedded

 

Less than a week after the gun "buy back" and at least three people have been shot in Seattle. Maybe the next one should be held at that Safeway lot? I'm sure a lot of the local thugs will turn in their weaponry for a $100 gift card.

Maybe they should just keep that area closed down. Everyday there is some violent crime going on.

That area is terrible. This is the 4th shooting on that block in the last year.