Seattle Police are looking for suspects in a fatal early morning shooting in the Central District.

According to SPD spokesman Jeff Kappel, just before 2AM police received a call about gunfire near 26th Ave and E Cherry St. When officers arrived, they found a 20-year-old man lying on the sidewalk, suffering from several gunshot wounds.

Medics attempted to treat the man, but it appears he died at the scene.

Police have not released any information about suspects or whether the shooting is gang related.

This is the fifth homicide in Seattle since the beginning of the year, and the second this weekend.

On Saturday, police also arrested a 21-year-old man for investigation into the murder of a 71-year-old West Seattle woman who was found dead in her home on Friday.

I’ll have more details on both cases as they become available.

Jonah Spangenthal-Lee: Proving you wrong since 1983.

99 replies on “One Killed In Drive-By Shooting at 26th and Cherry”

  3. Is there actually more violent crime lately, or is Slog just posting more instances?

    I won’t lie: I get all my news from various blogs, so, it’s hard to know…

  10. #4, the police logs were wrong. Reporting is different than copying and pasting.

    And what’s dickish about pointing out an error? Correct addressing is important.

  11. A question since I’m across the nation–do most of these murders happen in specific parts of Seattle or is it spread out? I ask b/c here in Baltimore murders are almost all concentrated in certain sections of East and West Baltimore and are related to poverty, gangs, and the drug trade. We’ve had something like 26 murders already this year.

  12. @9: you are a racist fuckstick and a troll. There was nothing in this story about race, though your post would have been a troll even if it had. You’re not telling the “truth,” and today was created specifically to silence you and make you find some other playground to defile. Go away.

  13. Once upon a time, I lived at 1516 Bellevue Avenue. One night at about 3am, the cops came and pounded on my door. They were looking for someone named Ephram, and saying that they’d had a report of an attempted suicide.

    I let them in and let them look around and one of them said “I don’t understand. We were told to respond to 1516 Bellevue Avenue East for an attempted suicide”

    I told them that they were at 1516 Bellevue Avenue, and that 1516 Bellevue Avenue East was about 18 blocks north. They left.

    I often wonder what happened to poor Ephram….

  15. @3 – poking around here says that Seattle has had between 24 and 37 homicides per year for the past few years. So five in the first month and a half of the year would put us near the high end of that range, so far.

    Sad.

  16. @Balt-O-Matt – tends to be in specific parts of the city. This shooting took place in the Central District, which is generally regarded as a hotspot for gang-related violence. Would not surprise me at all if this was a gang-related crime.

  17. Won’t someone please censor these awful, factual dickish comments so my naive little world-view is not shattered by the awful reality?

  18. It’s about poverty, not about race.

    To think otherwise is both extremely naive, and truly dickish.

  20. 13
    Some folks have the dilusion that anything that differs from their closed minded PC view of the world is dick.

  24. How dare all those dirt-poor people in West Virginia, one of the poorest (and whitest) states not keep up their end of the liberal “poverty=crime” cliche excuse bargain!

  25. How dare all those dirt-poor people in West Virginia, one of the poorest (and whitest) states not keep up their end of the liberal “poverty=crime” cliche excuse bargain!

  26. Racial profiling, class warfare, nonsense comments from changing identity puppetry. It seems that No Dick Day is off to a fine start!

    Awesome.

    *makes popcorn*

  30. I live just a few blocks away from 26th and Cherry. My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think this is the 4 death by shooting within 6 blocks of my house in the last year.

    Today, I’m signing the lease on a new apartment back on the hill. Personally, I’ll be happy to leave the neighborhood behind.

  31. Clearly nobody in the CD heard about no dick day. Because shooting someone multiple times and leaving them for dead is a pretty dickish thing to do.

  32. It does seem that with as many enlighterned white Liberals as Seattle has they would be able to lift up the poor.

  34. Hilariously, in the KOMO news comments on this story, there are a few dicks who are up in arms that the shooting was reported as being in Madrona! So irresponsible of KOMO to impugn a whole neighborhood! It’s actually the CD (a few blocks away) that has all the murders!

  36. #39, yes, it is terribly racist to point out anything that casts blacks in a less-than-positive light, especially if the things being pointed out are true facts that cannot be refuted with any logical argument except to shriek “racism”.

  39. oh my god, i was so looking forward to no dick day. clearly the de-dickers have read this thread and decided that all this race shit is fair game. i’m done with n.d.d. if y’all can’t cut that shit out. it’s not like this is abnormal for slog, but i had such high hopes for a pleasant reading experience. whoever keeps leaving those crap ass comments, please de-dick yourself, since the moderators won’t. go away, and you’re welcome to come back tomorrow. now, who wants to talk about violence crime in seattle like grownups?

  40. johnnycache,

    I hear ya.

    I jumped on the real state bandwagon a few years ago and my first home purchase was in the CD, right below 23rd and Jackson.

    While I never had a problem directed towards me, there comes a point when you are no longer alarmed when gunfire is taking place in front of your house in the middle of the night. Or when some kid gets shots and is found bleeding on the sidewalk in front of your house.

    That was when I made the decision to sell and move to another neighborhood.

  41. As a conservative, I have problems dealing with complexities and nuance. I like being able to be self-righteous about race because it makes me seem all mavericky like my hero Sarah Palin.

    I come here to post, because I’m too cowardly to actually say these things out loud, lest people see me for the dick I actually am. Truth is, I’d be much happier back in Peoria, but there’s no work there, since everything is controlled by conservatives like me, who have problems dealing with complexities.

    So you’re stuck with me. Until I get laid off of course, which is bound to happen, as my company is looking to rid itself of dead weight and people incapable of complex thought. When I get laid off, I think I’ll drain the unemployment system for a while, and then kill myself, leaving behind a mess, and a poorly written suicide note that I will consider my manifesto.

    So yes, it’s all about black people, all the time. God, I love being a conservative!

  43. As a liberal, I have problems with facts and truth. I like my naive outlook and love to be self-righteous and shriek “racism” when any facts about black culture or crime rates are pointed out. Since I am a liberal, I also label anyone who disagrees with my naive worldview as being a Republican or a Palin-lover, because I cannot comprehend complexities or nuance, and because I think everything must fit into one of two holes.

  47. As a typical slog commenter, I resort to sarcasm when I can’t constructively engage in dialog, usually because I am too busy being self-righteous and concerned with how awesome I look on teh internets.

    I also can’t handle the true meaning of complexity and nuance, especially when it comes to crime, race and poverty: higher crime rates in predominantly black neighborhoods have causes rooted in poverty, the failures of public education and other institutions, pop-cultural attitudes, structural racism, black defeatism, the “War on Drugs”, the un-equal transistion of the country to a post-industrial economy, and many other factors, ALL OF WHICH ARE INTERRELATED AND CANNOT BE ADDRESSED OR EXAMINED SINGULARLY.

    As a slog commenter, I enjoy taking one small aspect of that horrendously interrelated, self-sustaining knot of issues and abstracting it out, to prove either my reductionist “conservative” or “liberal” views.

  48. #49, it is a fact that blacks are seven times more likely to commit violent crimes than whites, not opinion. It is a fact that black men make up only about 3% of the USA but commit over 52% of all murders and over 34% of all rapes every year, not opinion. It might be a fact that you are naive, though.

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