Another deadly shooting, almost in my neighborhood

I heard the fire equipment rolling to this one last night, and looked it up on the Seattle Fire Department's real-time 911 log, so I knew it was down on the southwest corner of lower Queen Anne on Elliott Avenue, and that it was an "Assault with Weapons."

This morning we learn it was a teenage private party in a rented empty storefront, and some gang members showed up a little before midnight and demanded entrance, and there was an exchange of words followed by a discharge of firearms. The dead kid was 16 and the wounded kid was 14.

Now, what the heck are 14-year-old and 16-year-old kids doing at a party in the fringe of downtown at midnight on a weekday Hmm?

Meanwhile, it is worth noting that the police force of Seattle is approximately two hundred officers understaffed. "Budget problems," the City Council says, as they spend fifty-some-odd millions of dollars on a streetcar for the neighborhood with the best bus service in the city.

Posted: Fri - January 4, 2008 at 12:03 PM

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Another deadly shooting, almost in my neighborhood

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