Police have just arrested a suspect in this morning’s fatal shooting near Franklin High School.
Around 3:00 AM, police received reports of 4-6 gunshots near Rainier Avenue South and South Byron Street. When officers arrived, they found a 31-year-old man laying in an alley nearby with multiple gunshot wounds. The man was taken to Harborview, where he later died.
Police say the suspected gunman was arrested near the scene of the shooting.
Update: Police now say homicide detectives arrested two suspects, a 29-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, in South Seattle last night.
is it too much to ask for an editor up in here?
Apologies. Originally posted from my iPhone. Should be fixed.
Is it too much to ask our criminals NOT to return to the scene of the crime they commited? Talk about stupid!!
What’s with the weird spam?
But I’m glad the bastard got caught. Thanks for the update, Jonah!
Dumb shooter or no, nice work cops.
Have some facts.
http://tinyurl.com/no5knk
From the article “List of 2008 homicides in Seattle” from the Seattle PI
selected from the list of the 28 Seattle homicides in 2008….
Allen Joplin, Jan. 4 — black killed by black
De’Che Morrison, Jan. 10 — black killed by black
Maurice “Moe” Allen Jr., Jan. 26 — black killed by black
Degene Barecha, Jan. 30 — black killed by black
Perry Henderson, Feb. 6 — black killed by black
Stephan Dwaine Stewart, April 2 — black killed by black
Eldora Earlycutt, July 4 — black killed by black
James Paroline, July 10 — white killed by black
Troy Peters, July 22 — black killed by black
Pierre Lapoint, Aug. 5 — black killed by black
Jane Kariuki, Oct. 16 — woman of unknown race killed by black man named Christel D. Murphy
Quincy S. Coleman, Oct. 31 — black killed by black
Edward McMichael, the “Tuba Man”, Nov. 3 — white killed by multiple blacks
Nathaniel Lee Thomas, Nov. 23 — black killed by black
So by my count blacks (8% of Seattle) were the killers in at least half (that’s at least 50%) of the murders in the Seattle area in 2008. At least five of the other murderers were latinos.
The numbers are actually worse for 2009 and do approach the 85% mark. Up to June there have been at least 5 murders in Seattle and in at least three of them the murder was black.
Just look at all the attention that Slog has given those two white lesbians who were raped and stabbed (one killed) by that black guy that your loony white-guilt courts let go!!!
Actually the only reason you even paid any attention to it was because they were lesbians, even going so far as shrieking about how it was an anti-gay hate crime, totally ignoring the more obvious possibility that if it was any kind of hate crime at all, it was a black-on-white hate crime.