Shooting At Rainier and Henderson (seattlecrime.com):
We’re hearing scanner chatter about a shooting at Rainier and Henderson [Fri., Jan. 22] … Sounds like police just found a bullet lodged in the wall of a sub shop and Rainier and Henderson. More.
Former Rainier Beach HS drug counselor faces prison on drug charge (Seattle Post Intelligencer):
Robert “Smitty” Smith was a bright light of the South Seattle community, a youth coach and stand-in father, a drug counselor at Rainier Beach High School.
Smith, 60, was also a pain pill addict and, a jury found, dealer. Next month, he’ll find out whether his next stop is federal prison.
Arrested in December 2009, the Rainier Beach drug and alcohol intervention specialist and a second man faced a federal indictment on allegations that they sold oxycodone to a police informant. Smith was convicted after a three-day trial on six counts related to a series of pain killer sales. More.
Beacon Hill teen has laptop, cell phone stolen after school (Seattle Post Intelligencer):
A teen was robbed of his laptop and cell phone last week on Beacon Hill, and police are looking for two suspects.
The incident happened about 3 p.m. Jan. 18 in the 3700 block of South Cloverdale Street. The student was walking in the opposite direction of the two suspects, who stopped to size him up. They threatened to assault him if the teen didn’t let them search his pockets and backpack.
The suspects then took his school laptop and T-Mobile Comet cell phone. They fled northbound over fences and through yards, police were told. More.
Weird crime at Rainier & Henderson: Pantless man, pepper spray, brass knuckles (Seattle Post Intelligencer):
Every so often, a police report comes along that seems interesting, but is hard to follow because of the bizarre circumstances.
One of those is on my desk today.
The incident –an assault with brass knuckles – happened Friday in the 9200 block of Rainier Avenue South – near Rainier and South Henderson Street, which has been marked by violence and gang activity. Read more.
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So now they just pull a jack move and cut off the bus?
Crazy.
To SSC,
Does the bus hijacking fall under federal law? I’m not sure if it qualifies as interstate commerce or not. Is it pretty amazing that this hasn’t been mentioned in the larger news outlets.
Thanks,
Tom T
I have to say I’ve been wondering about the validity of the armed bus jacking report, given that it didn’t make the news in any way. I don’t expect KOMO to give a dang about the 106, but I’d expect some of the local small crime followers to have posted something about it.
To SSC, is this for realz?
I’m curious to know more about the bus-jacking incident mentioned in the comments from the first link also.
There is no way that the bus hijacking was for real. It would be all over the news. This is how rumors get spread.
I tend to disagree with the comments that this would be all over the news. In fact, I believe there have been several shootings that don’t make it beyond the RVP or seattlecrime.com or at best are tucked away in the reporting.
In my last house a neighbor kid (in his 2nd-story bedroom) shot a rival kid (across the street on the lawn of an elementary school) in the head and it never made the news. There was even a 3 hour swat standoff around the house — and I testified in a murder trial! Not a peep in the news…
I have a teenager so I hear a lot about the stuff that goes on. I sit and wait and wait for mainstream media to report on it and they don’t. RVP captures most of what goes down but a lot still goes under the radar.
I don’t know if this bus incident really happened but it really wouldn’t surprise me if it did.
Something needs to happen on the 19 or 31 before some people care.
Side note, the owner at the sub shop told me a couple weeks ago he didn’t know how much longer he was going to stay open. Im sure a bullet lodged in his business isnt helping matters.
I am not saying that the media reports all violent crime. What I am saying is that if armed men hijacked a city bus we would hear about it. Somebody getting shot in S. Seattle is very different than an entire bus being hijacked. I’m not saying that the lack of violent crime coverage is acceptable, but hijacking public transportation is a whole different ballgame. Maybe the issue is the word hijacking. A violent crime committed on a bus might not make the news, but a true hijacking would.
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