Seattle Police and gang detectives detained an alleged gang member and arrested a 15-year-old armed with a shotgun outside of a West Seattle house party last week, after receiving reports about disturbances and gunfire in the neighborhood.
According to a police report, Seattle police were called to a house 9200 block of 8th Ave SW after neighbors called 911 about “cussing” in front of the house.
Police contacted a teenager at the house, who told officers he “was just having good friends come over to dance to music before he went off to college to play football,” the report says.
Officers threatened the teen with a $250 fine if the noise continued and then left.
Later, “numerous officers” responded to the area after receiving a call about shots fired in the vicinity of the party and nearby Westcrest Park.
According to the report, unknown black male got into an argument with a group of Hispanic males on a street corner near the party. Words were exchanged and the black male fired a handgun in the air, the report says.
The group of Hispanic men ran off, the report says, “only to return holding a pistol gripped shotgun.” They then “threatened to start shooting if everyone didn’t run” and fled into Westcrest Park.
Following the incident, police surrounded the park and spotted the group of men getting into a white Honda Accord.
Police stopped the car and found that a 15-year-old boy in the car was concealing a Mossberg shotgun in his pants. The report indicates that the shotgun was reported stolen in Mountlake Terrace. According to the report, gang detectives identified several people in the car as members of the Sureno Villeanos 13 gang.
The 15-year-old was arrested and booked into the Youth Service Center for investigation of possession of stolen property and a weapons charge.
Now I am beginning to understand why my mom and dad wouldn’t let me have a gun when I was a teenager, even though I argued that everyone else had one. Shitty teenage life!
wheee! stolen guns & teenage testosterone! USA #1!
I think it is high time that the Federal government make it a Federal crime to participate in any gang activity. Make it a Federal crime to possess a weapon when doing so. Once you have been identified as belonging to a violent gang with a history of committing crimes of violence, it should be deemed a Federal hate crime, if you commit a felony in the presence of 2 or more gang members. Put some teeth into prosecuting the gangs out of existence.
This kid should be locked away for life. Throw away the key. Enough is enough.
Geeeeeesh.
Is that a Swedish shotgun in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
And this is why you “defending the Constitution” gun kooks are so full of shit. Yes, you have your right to bear arms, and no doubt if a thug (whether jack-booted gummint man or do-ragged gangbanger) bursts into your home and threatens you, you will shoot him bravely like the Western gunslinger you believe yourself to be. But if you’re not home, the thug will just take your fucking guns, and now there’s a new gun on the street, in the hands of a criminal, not Wyatt Earp.
The gun that killed my grandparents, which normally lived in the bedside table for “protection”, was taken from them in a struggle, and showed up fifteen years later in a police sweep. Who the hell knows how many other people it was used to kill. A legal, properly purchased handgun just like you people say the law demands.
Guns, gun owners, gun lovers, gun touchers, gun fondlers, gun fuckers: you make me sick.
How the hell do you fit a Mossberg in your pants? Seriously, the logistics are baffling.
Leave it to “Reality” Check not to understand the basic principles of federal laws or law enforcement. Geeeeeesh.
ah, brown people.
Fnarf is on point. Damn all you gun lovers to hell. If not for easy access to firearms, this would be just one more messed up teenager, making his way through a difficult adolescence. Instead, he’s the threat of multiple homicide. I say the 2nd amendment lunatics are to blame and I say enough already.
To take gun owners off the hook for a second….
How many new pistols, shotguns and machine guns are manufactured each year? More than are melted down, it would seem. And more than the increase in population of responsible adults, too.
How many guns does a responsible person need to own?
If we are going to be soft on drug users, but hard on the dealers, then why are we so soft on Smith & Wesson, et al?
@9 um..I think there is a big difference between between messed up teenager and gun toting gangbanger. Poor little guy, If only he didn’t have access to that gun he would be just be a sad little emo kid.
Give me a fucking break.
@9 I think there is a big difference between between messed up teenager and gun toting gangbanger.
So do I. It’s called a gun.
Poor little guy, If only he didn’t have access to that gun my friend/child/father would still be alive.
Give me a fucking break.
I think it takes a especially unique fucked up kid to commit murder, but go ahead and blame the weapons, rather than the person. Hell, we all might just get a little crazy if we all had a gun in our possession (I wonder who I would threaten first?) In fact lets go ahead and ban all guns, because surely that will keep these predators from getting weapons in the first place.
Prohibition has worked so well in the past.
@10 To answer my question a little bit, it looks like about 3 – 4 million guns per year, factoring in the import market. Yikes!
But I’m sure we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
Funny that these situations so rarely involve white people
@6 – those stupid-ass baggy pants that look like Levi’s Clown Pants. You could probably fit a bazooka in those ugly fucking things.
@14, considering that literally half of all the households in America have at least one gun in them, that’s not a particularly surprising number.
As for the rest of you, I get a hoot out of the way you demonize inanimate objects. I guess those evil, horrible guns must be the cause of all the suffering in the world then. Funny, though, how, when you look at the actual numbers, there are a whole lot more things out there that kill more people.
Serious question, gun boobs: when you’re fantasizing about taking down Super Badguy there with your powerful, powerful weapon, calculating your bore, jacking the slide, filling the chamber, feeling your finger on the trigger, seeing the bad guy filling the sight, or whatever the hell it is you do, how long does it take you to come?
That’s your fantasy, Fnarf, not mine.
I can imagine a land with no guns where my rights are protected by a republican administration and the Seattle police department.
I’ll keep the guns, thanks.
Whatever… amend the constitution losers.
Fnarf @ 19, your grandparents definitely shouldn’t have had a gun as they had no idea how to handle it or store it. They also had terrible home security measures if they didn’t wake up until the intruder was in their room. Make you a deal. When you’ve collected every illegal gun from the various ghetto animals we keep reading about I’ll consider giving up my pistol.
Ah, yes, 23, but that would mean they would bear some personal responsibility for what happened to them. You’ll never get Fnarf to admit to that. It’s much easier to blame an inanimate object.
Defensive weapon is an oxymoron. Guns are almost perfectly useless for the kinds of self-defense scenarios most of their advocates obsessively envision. Don’t get me wrong, guns are quite useful for shooting people; just not people that are actively seeking to harm you.
Several of the most well-armed people I know, semi-automatic weapons and “Protected by Smith and Wesson” decals and military training and all, have been robbed at gunpoint. The key? An enterprising armed robber will wait until their target isn’t holding a gun. It isn’t a particularly difficult strategy for the criminal mind to grasp.
Your gun might, might come in handy should you choose to shoot your spouse or your friend or some guy at a party who annoys you or even yourself, but it almost certainly will not come in handy for the sake of crime prevention.