As the long weekend ends, the West Seattle Crime Watch reports have suddenly stacked up:
GUNFIRE SUSPECT RELEASED: One of the Fourth of July arrests noted in our roundup was that of a 23-year-old man accused of “drive-by shooting.” The police narrative presented for his first court hearing Saturday, which we obtained today, includes more details than the SPD Blotter post. The report says that the report came from the Harbor Avenue 7-Eleven, that a man had fired two shots from the sun roof of a black VW, and police stopped what they believed to be that car in the 1000 block of Harbor. The gunfire suspect told police he had a confrontation with someone at a gas station. Meantime, a witness said they saw the VW in a car-to-car confrontation at West Marginal/Chelan, after which the suspect allegedly fired into the air through the sun roof, then proceeded to the Harbor Avenue 7-Eleven. That’s when the witness called police. The report says the witness couldn’t positively identify the suspect or anyone else in the car as the person who fired the gun. But someone told police the gun had been fired inside the car; they saw a shell casing there, and found another one in the intersection at West Marginal/Chelan. Police arrested the suspect and booked him into jail; at his bail hearing, prosecutors asked that he be held on $150,000 bail; the appearance-court judge released him on personal recognizance.(The police report filed for the hearing, it should be noted, had “no” checked off in the space where it’s asked if law enforcement would object to the suspect’s release.)
STOLEN F-250: The owner came home from a trip today and found it gone.
I discovered my truck stolen when arriving home today. My neighbor last saw it Wednesday the 2nd..It’s a dark-gray/blue 1990 Ford F-250, license plate D93929D. It has an Alki sticker on the back window. It was stolen from (the 2400 block of) Alki Avenue SW.
They’re in the process of getting a police report filed; call 911 if you find it.
We also have three hit-runs for which people are requesting info:
SUNDAY NIGHT, 13TH/CLOVERDALE: Pam says the driver of this car hit hers and is looking for info:
She says the plate starts with CVY and the crash happened at 8:25 pm tonight. We’ll add the police report number when we get it.
FRIDAY, SW HENDERSON: Cami says video shows a driver hitting her partner’s car (below) and another “off Henderson” on the Fourth of July.
She’s looking for the other victim. If that was you and you haven’t connected yet, contact us.
THURSDAY, ARBOR HEIGHTS: Jackie emailed to say her dad’s parked car was hit at 1:10 am Thursday (July 3) at 35th SW/SW 104th. He reported, “From the debris left at the scene, the moving car was a metallic dark-blue Tesla, circa 2020-2023, Model Y.” It’s likely to have major damage. If you have information, the SPD incident # to refer to is 25-185016.
