A few months ago, 31-year-old Luis Edenso was at the Safeway in Rainier Beach picking up groceries. Suddenly, he heard gunshots from the down the block. “My natural instinct was to hit the floor,” he said gravely. Edenso, a stocky Seahawks fan, looked around at his surroundings. Everyone else was going on with their shopping as if nothing had happened. “It was just normal to them.”
Edenso grew up about 15 minutes away from the intersection of Rainier Avenue South and Henderson Street, near the Safeway. He was involved in street crimes as a youngster, he said, but got out of that life and transitioned into retail work. Now he mans the counter at a one-room MetroPCS storefront just north of the intersection.
Crime isn’t nearly as bad as it once was in the area, according to Edenso, but sitting inside the store, he hears gunshots every couple of days. “I still call it the danger zone,” he said…
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