I used to work downtown Seattle in the Century Square building which has one side on 3rd Avenue between Pike and Pine streets. Barb calls this street “Mugme Street” because all your warning flags go up as soon as you poke your head out of the building along that one block length of 3rd. When I was working there I blogged about it fairly often.
Last night there was a “dispute” at 3rd and Pine which moved below the street to Westlake Tunnel (and bus station). The end result was three people shot and one dead:
Police are looking for a gunman who shot three people, killing one of the victims, near the Westlake light rail station in downtown Seattle Friday night.
Authorities said three people were struck by gunfire about 9:30 p.m. Two of the victims were found near Third Avenue and Pine Street. The third victim was at Fifth Avenue and Pine Street.
It is important to note that the locations were all underground at Westlake Station.
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Police believe a dispute started above ground near the McDonald’s on Third Avenue and moved below to the Westlake Tunnel. They also believe there is only one suspect.
I used to take the bus into town and get off at Westlake Station.
That McDonald’s has to be one of the most dangerous to eat at in the country. I almost never got food there and it just really bothered me to even linger in the area.
I’m so glad neither Barb nor I work downtown now.
Update: A suspect has been arrested: 20-year-old Westlake Station shooting suspect held on $2M bail
My son works downtown and will no longer take his wife and kids to Seattle. It’s simply too dangerous along with all the trash and homeless wandering the street.
Seattle is broken! As are all the other large socialist run cities in America. As a young adult, we took every chance to go into the big cities. It was exciting. No more.
Be interesting to see if this was an undocumented recreational pharmaceutical transaction gone bad, or, perhaps, the 3 “victims” made a strategic error in the victim selection process and the shooter decided that talking to Seattle PD was not in his best interest.
Check out the link in the update above. It doesn’t appear to have been a justifiable shooting.