Seattle Police say that a 19-year old man has been arrested in connection with a January shooting in Rainier Beach that left a young woman dead and another victim with gunshot wounds to his legs.
According to police, the gunman opened fire in the Subway sandwich shop parking lot in the 9300 block of Rainier Avenue South at 52nd Avenue South just before 10 pm on January 3rd in what they said may have been a drug deal “gone bad”.
Later, an unnamed officer confirmed that the deal involved “a couple ounces of Marijuana”.
The suspect was arrested in Maple Valley on February 14th and subsequently booked into King County Jail for Investigation of Murder.
Seattle Police Department spokesperson Renee Witt says that detectives are still looking for another suspect.
Anyone with information about this incident or who may know the identity or whereabouts of the suspect is asked to call 911 or the Seattle Police Homicide Tip Line at (206) 233-5000. Anonymous tips are welcome.
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Wow! All these arrests. Nice to hear.
Agreed—but I am still saddened that there are people who are willing to risk life in prison for a relatively small sum of money. That is surely an indication of hopelessness and desperation that needs to be addressed.
I am very happy about all the arrests. It shows that the police can do their job. What we need to see are preventative measures. It is great that the police will catch a criminal, but I would rather not have the crime happen in the first place. This is where the city comes into play. The city council needs to initiate funding for programs that help to prevent crime. Please email our elected officials and tell them that this is what we want.
Hmmmm….I don’t know that I agree this is the result of hopelessness or desperation as much as laziness, greed, and a self-centered world view that allows the killer to rationalize anything they do to other people.
It’s much easier to get hold of a gun and rob and kill people than it is to work honestly, yet most of the poor in the community decide to do just that (work honestly), even when it means cramming more family members or multiple families into a single home, or holding down multiple jobs at a time.
Even in the worst part of the current economic crisis, violent crime continued on it’s downward trend. Some of our nation’s worst periods of violent crime ocurred during some of our best economic times (I’m thinking of the 1990′s). I think to address the issues of crime and violence, society needs to realize that the cause is not economic. I think blaming economic conditions presents two problems: 1) It provides a rationalization mechanism for the offender “I’m a product of the system”, “There’s no other options”, etc… and 2) If we continue to view it as a economic issue we will continue to fail to address the problem.
That’s a really interesting point, South Seattle Cop. My husband and I also find ourselves going down that path of thinking (“oh, poor little boys who broke into our home, they must be desperate because they cannot find a job, have no hope”), but as you point out, MOST of the poor in the community do work honestly rather than go out and rob people.
I am still going to blame their parents a little bit though.
An arrest is one thing, conviction is another, & sentencing (after conviction, of course) is another, & very important. We read about the
crimes, we read about arrests (fewer than the crimes), but we almost never read about the follow-up. Maybe South-East Seattle is at the point where we can have teams of court-watchers — folks who follow particular
cases & report back to the rest of us about outcomes.
As for programs that will persuade criminals to pursue other lines of work — what are they? I read bumper strips that say “Educati0n, not incarceration”. So, the sentence for the 19-year old shooter here (if convicted) is, what? Mandatory attendance at high school through graduation? Are we to believe that educated people don’t commit crimes, serious crimes?
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