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Two injured in back-to-back shootings at Rainier & Henderson in Rainier Beach (SPD):

On March 12th at approximately 12:09 a.m. officers responded to a shooting that occurred at Rainier Avenue South and South Henderson Street.  Preliminary investigation indicates that two groups confronted each other and exchanged words.  Shortly thereafter shots were fired and one subject was hit in the wrist.

SFD medics responded to the scene and transported the victim to Harborview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.  After the shooting the involved parties left the area and no suspect description was provided to investigating officers.

At approximately 1:02 a.m. officers responded to 46th Avenue South and South Henderson Street for reports of a man shot.  Officers located a victim with a gunshot wound to the wrist. The victim was subsequently transported to Harborview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

Preliminary investigation indicates that elements of the same two groups that were involved in the previous incident less than an hour earlier met back up and violence erupted a second time. The only suspect information provided to officers was a partial vehicle description: a white Cadillac STS. The suspects/vehicle remain at large.

Gang Unit detectives are actively investigating both shootings.

Undercover Cops Buy Guns, Arrest Four On Beacon Hill (seattlecrime.com):

Seattle police arrested four people at a Beacon Hill apartment building late last month following an undercover investigation into illegal gun sales.

Last month, police records say a “concerned citizen” contacted the South Preinct with information about “suspects were trying to sell several shotguns [and] long guns” out of an apartment on 12th Ave S and S Judkins St.

On February 26th, a member of SPD’s South Precinct Anti-Crime Team called a phone number provided by the informant and spoke with a 39-year-old woman, who told an undercover officer she could broker a deal between officers and her 24-year-old nephew, who was selling two shotguns for $150 a piece.

Police traded phone calls with the woman over the next 24 hours and eventually set up a meeting time at the Beacon Hill apartment building. Read more.

Police seize pot robbers missed in Rainier Beach home invasion (seattlecrime.com):

A group of armed men burst into a South Seattle home last week looking for a big stash of weed, but only made off with a few laptops. Strangely enough, when police showed up to the home, one of the residents was all too happy to show the pot to the cops, who promptly confiscated it.

According to a police report, around 8:00pm on March 4th, a man was downstairs in his home in the 5100 block of S Cloverdale, when his sister came in and said a suspicious person was hanging around the front door of the house.

The man went to the door and talked to the suspicious man, who asked if someone who did not live at the home was inside.

As the victim was explaining to the man that he had the wrong house, two other suspects walked up to the house and forced their way in, breaking the safety chain on the front door. Read more.

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