Woman shot in arm as bullets fly near Pike Place Market
SEATTLE - A woman was shot in the arm by a stray bullet from a nearby shootout as she was walking with friends just outside Pike Place Market early Saturday, police said.
The drama unfolded at about 12:15 a.m. Saturday as officers patrolling in the area heard shots fired in the area of 1st Avenue and Pike Street, said Detective Mark Jamieson of the Seattle police.
Several officers responded, and the first officer on scene found a 23-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her forearm. The officer applied first aid and called for Seattle Fire Department medics.
Witnesses told investigating officers that two men were crossing 2nd Avenue from Pike when they began arguing. One of the men pulled out a handgun and began shooting at the other. It is also believed that the second man pulled out his own gun and fired back, Jamieson said.
The victim, who was with her friends at the northeast corner of 1st Avenue and Pike Street getting ready to cross the street, was struck in the forearm by a stray bullet from the shootout.
Witnesses provided good descriptions of the shooters to officers, and a suspect was stopped in the parking lot to the north of the incident. That person had a gun and was taken into custody.
A detective later found a gun in the alley between 2nd and 3rd Avenue, and a second suspect was eventually located in a parking garage near 2nd Avenue and Pike Street.
The two suspects, ages 18 and 21, were taken to police headquarters and later booked into the King County Jail for investigation of assault, gun violations and drug violations, Jamieson said.
The victim was treated at the hospital and is expected to be OK.
The drama unfolded at about 12:15 a.m. Saturday as officers patrolling in the area heard shots fired in the area of 1st Avenue and Pike Street, said Detective Mark Jamieson of the Seattle police.
Several officers responded, and the first officer on scene found a 23-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her forearm. The officer applied first aid and called for Seattle Fire Department medics.
Witnesses told investigating officers that two men were crossing 2nd Avenue from Pike when they began arguing. One of the men pulled out a handgun and began shooting at the other. It is also believed that the second man pulled out his own gun and fired back, Jamieson said.
The victim, who was with her friends at the northeast corner of 1st Avenue and Pike Street getting ready to cross the street, was struck in the forearm by a stray bullet from the shootout.
Witnesses provided good descriptions of the shooters to officers, and a suspect was stopped in the parking lot to the north of the incident. That person had a gun and was taken into custody.
A detective later found a gun in the alley between 2nd and 3rd Avenue, and a second suspect was eventually located in a parking garage near 2nd Avenue and Pike Street.
The two suspects, ages 18 and 21, were taken to police headquarters and later booked into the King County Jail for investigation of assault, gun violations and drug violations, Jamieson said.
The victim was treated at the hospital and is expected to be OK.
Pike Place in the 80s was all about street drunks and people going to a handful of bar/ nightclubs in the vicinity. Fast forward past Liberal urban densification schemes and increasing leftwing political correctness, .....and voila, you have a playpen for urban gangs, junkies, drug dealers and their condo customers. It's gone from cool place with Seattle of yesteryear ambiance to decaying, increasingly run-down and dangerous Seattle of the Obama-era. It's becoming one and the same with the bus-stops at 3rd and Pike and 4th and Pine (as places best avoided).Â
What a sewer Seattle has turned into.
Herp derp we need more guns! Lets get guns and arm everyone, that's the only way to protect us! Buy guns guns guns!
The answer to these shootings is clear. We need more midnight basketball. Yes, that's the ticket! heh...For those who want a nite out ....go to Bellevue. Seattle has been taken over by asshats.
@lin Bellevue has had these shootings also. This is pretty much what happens whenever people decide to arm themselves to the teeth "for protection" and then go out and drink themselves beyond the legal limit for driving while taking offense at every comment made to themselves or their friends.
I doubt this is what really happened
"the first officer on scene found a 23-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her forearm. The officer applied first aid"Â
Cops don't do first aid on anyone unless it's another cop. They just stand around until the paramedic arrives.
@BuddyHolly There are more than a few very responsible and caring police officers, and all police are indeed trained in advanced first aid. The only real problem here is that the few bad apples in the barrel drip their disgusting and fetid juices of corruption all over their fellow officers while their union deems it necessary to protect their "right" to be mushy and moldy.
The arriving officer who attended to the wounded is a bit of a hero - don't minimize that.
I wonder if they were inner city youths trying to turn their lives around?
What's up with all the "gang" comments and "product of a bad environment or bad culture" comments? Is this in response to some other news site? I see no reference hete to gangs or where these suspects grew up., For all we know, they grew up in standard middle class areas or even affluent areas. Many types of people do and/or sell drugs. And as far as I can tell from the news stories these days, people from all walks of life seem to use guns as problem solving tools these days. It's like they all think life is some kind of video game or simulation! As for being out on the streets after midnight.... Yeah, it's too bad things have gone so far downhill. Back in the 70s when my husband and I were in hig school and dating, we often drove to Seattle and stayed for a late dinner at our favorite French Restaurant near Pioneer Square. We loved strolling around the city and it was perfectly safe. My parents had no problems with it either. They preferred having us out and about in the city surrounded by people and where it was safe than off on our own somewhere.
@justathought In an earlier version of the story they said the gang unit detectives were involved, dont see it in the story now though; anyway that is why the discussion
@justathought Back in the 70s I used to walk around Pike and 2nd, 3rd and the Market with money in my pocket and no fear in the wee hours of the morning. I was working H'Zoo on graveyard, saving money for school and wanted to preserve my day/night cycle on my days off. Today I avoid those areas even during the day. Thanks Mayor(?) McSchwinn. Your priorities suck!
Just sayin...
@justathought Well, it's probably because you're not at least a mild racist/bigot.  Who cares what the ethnicity of these people are really.  However, it would be nice to see some mugshots of these people so we know who these turds are.  They are adults after all.
I always get irritated by the gun grabber comments with their "if a citizen was there with a CPL, he/she could have emptied the magazine of his 1911." Or some other anti-self-defense garbage.
On the other side, I just love the vigilante comments. (I'm being sarcastic, obviously)
I would like to say to folks such as yourself that while this isn't a "huge town," the city of Seattle has grown quite a bit over the 40 years. Â Big city lights, typical big city problems. Â Besides, the 1990s was a lot worse wrt street violence with the "crack cocaine boom" during the time. Â Seattle is still a very tame city, thankfully. Â You do have to be situationally aware and avoid some spots esp. at night, as with any city. Â Downtown is pretty much a free-for-all open-air drug market, for many years now...
@KennyGambler @justathought The folk who are there with concealed handguns are the whole problem in the first place. (Actually, it would awfully interesting to see just how often these crimes are committed by someone who actually does have a CPL: it should be very unlikely, but it sure would be interesting to either prove or disprove that.)Â
Alcohol/drugs + sexually-charged entertainment and dancing in a public setting + ready access to firearms = something very bad is almost certain to happen.
@justathought I got news for you. Downtown Seattle has changed a lot since the 70s. Go down to Third Avenue between Pike and Pine and see for yourself.Â
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@Attila Liberal / Obama People don't habitually carry concealed firearms when out for a social evening.
@Attilathanks for that insightful comment, brainiac..
Gunsmoke.
Do bullets really "fly" ?
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@CIAassassin  Is there a common denominator between downtown and s seattle at night as you suggest?
Just wondering...
Here is the nation's gun violence problem. Young punks, in gangs, probably involved in drugs, probably some felony history, using guns to solve their petty problems. You'll notice my rifle didn't jump out of my safe to shoot someone at the same time. So which "problem" are we going to address?
@Watcher3Â How about the gang bangers ? did you not also see the drug violations ? Â maybe if our laws were enforced on drugs and immigration this problem would solve itself ?
@Watcher3 There is much logic in what you say. What interests me is the government going after "assault" weapons (I don't own any) while ignoring hand guns. Less than 200 children have been killed in schools, using assault weapons, which is the probable motivator behind the current frenzy in this regard.
Meanwhile, over 6000 primarily gangbangers have been killed in Chicago alone in the last 10 years overwhelmingly the result of hand guns. The Afghanistan war which has a smaller body count using assault weapons and IEDs in about the same period. Yet, we ignore the threat of hand guns which are CLEARLY and ILLEGALLY in the hands of convicted felons.
Go figure.. I can. It does not put our priorities in a very good, but understandable, light.
@GOATCUTTERÂ Agreed. However, I do wonder just what the reaction would be from the NRA if we tried to put severe restrictions on ownership and carrying of handguns.Â
One of the problems here is that a concealed handgun is (a) pretty hard to detect, and (b) hard to determine if being carried unlawfully or lawfully. This makes enforcement of laws barring felon possession difficult to enforce until after an event like this has already happened. You can complain about unlawful carrying all day long, but until you can determine how to distinguish unlawful carrying from the lawful variety without getting called for violations of "rights", enforcement remains a dream on the same scale as Diet Smith's Magnetic Space Coupe.
Why would anyone be out on the Seattle streets after dark? Idiots.
@Tattooed_Angel2Â Yeah Tattooed Angel.. Â God forbid somebody being out in downtown Seattle after 5:58pm. Â Way to blame the victim... Â freak.
@sleever Not blaming the victim here. It's a fact. Seattle is overrun with violence, thugs, and degenerates. If you choose to be out with them after dark then your an idiot... but good luck to ya!
@Tattooed_Angel2 @sleever I use to run around Seattle as a teenager (many many moons ago LOL)  but I would not walk the streets at night now for any reason. Which really is a shame because they do have some wonderful entertainment in the area.
@Tattooed_Angel2Â There was a concert that just got out around the corner at the Showbox. Screw you. Stop being an idiot and think before you speak.
@SalParadise I think before I speak and I still think that if you are out in Seattle after dark with all the riff raff, then you are a freaking idiot!
@Tattooed_Angel2Â Perhaps it was somebody that bought an over-priced condo there before the neighborhood went back on the decline?
@Tattooed_Angel2Â
In normal cities not overrun by savages, people are out at night quite frequently. Sometimes very late into the night. And it's perfectly safe. Visit Munich or Barcelona during the summer; you'll see what I mean.Â
@Whobeke I don't know about "perfectly" in regards to Barcelona. Don't they have a huge problem with pickpockets? Violent street crime, on the other hand, is pretty much unheard of. Of course, Spain has very strict gun laws.
@Illuminati @Whobeke please don't bring logic and reason to this forum.
@Whobeke @Tattooed_Angel2 , Amen to that, brother. Seattle definitely has a savage problem. For some reason, city leadership seems unable - or unwilling - to attack the problem.
@StringerJoe @Whobeke @Tattooed_Angel2 well, that might infringe on the little hoodlums rights!Â
@Tattooed_Angel2Â Maybe they were out at the clubs. Maybe they had a late dinner. My wife and I will go dancing down at the old godfathers when we come in town. ( I forget the name of the blues club there )
@Tattooed_Angel2Â The Triple Door, The Showbox - there is a lot of good music that happens right around there. Plenty of restuarants too. Midnight is not that late. If all the good people stay home hte streets will run rampant with trash, all the bsiness will dry up and then the streets will be no good night OR day.Â
@justsaying The streets are already rampant with trash.
Drug violations, too? I'm shocked.
Wild wild Northwest, gun fight at Market Place, it will go down in history.
@dkgiovenco I wish that we could go back to the old days where we threw fish at each other instead of shooting each other.
@komonews scary
Now prosecute both of these creeps for the first degree assaults AND enhance the charges with the applicable firearms violations. Bye-bye.
We need some control over the manufacture and distribution of criminals.
@Meng Se. Yes, the FBI should definitely be watching your bedroom and others very carefully.
@Meng Se This is unquestionably the best internet comment I've read in a very long time.
I think they should publicly execute both of these scumbags as an example and broadcast it on video screens to the whole Pike St corridor.
Pike Place Market: Â Come for the shootouts, stay for the produce. Â
@Opus8no5Â and the donuts....dont forget the donuts...
@Susabelle @Opus8no5 Or the beautiful flowers!
@Tattooed_Angel2 @Susabelle @Opus8no5 I always get a bouquet when I go to the market........