We have two separate reports of gunfire in the neighborhood early this morning.
Michael emails: “Anyone else hear what sounded more like 8-9 gunshots and not fireworks at 1:41 a.m. last night?
“We live on Northeast 97th Street near 15th Avenue Northeast. It was so loud and scary we hit the deck!
“Sirens were a few minutes later (according to my wife).”
And Tim emails:
I live on Northeast 90th Street and 12th Avenue Northeast and last night around 1:45 a.m. (my 9-month-old was up) I heard about 10 gunshots to the south. I called the police and they said they had quite a few calls with the same report. Have you heard anything else about this? I haven’t been able to find anything in the news about it.
We have a call in to the police PIO.
From SPD:
Officers responded to a “shots fired” call in the area of 14th Avenue Northeast Northeast 120 Street near Pinehurst playfield. No persons or property were struck by the bullets. Several spent casings of two different calibers were recovered as evidence. None of the participants in the shooting were around when police arrived.
Those two locations are what, 24 blocks apart? (15th & 95th and 120th and 14th.)
Hellraisers in a car, methinks.
Which one was first?
Interesting, so maybe fireworks to mask the sound of gunshots? Spent casing found so something, unless they were old.
Just read the comments from the police above.
Sounds like two separate incidents in two locations. No idea if it was the same perps.
It was absolutely fireworks.
From what’s left on 15th between 95th and 96th, someone set a box of roman candles (25 per box, according to the packaging that I picked up) on fire and threw it out the window of their car.
There were still 17 cardboard tubes in the road as of 11pm Friday night. I picked up one and the packaging just to have as proof.
I also live on NE 102nd, east of 15th Ave NE, very near the Thornton Creek natural area. I was awake when it happened very early Friday morning (bum shoulder keeping me up), and, to me, it sounded like fireworks, due to the whistling sound. Then again, I’m not really an expert on what gunfire sounds like. I also heard the sirens.
I thought it may have been somehow related to the “May Day” events, but that is pure speculation.
I was awake when I heard the shots. To me it could have been either gunshots or an explosive like fireworks. I’m on 102nd off 15th. Very disturbing, but it seems like the late night booms happen now and then. This time was unusual due to the number of sirens.
NE 97th between 12th & 15th… At 1:41 AM I heard 5 rapid fire shots that sounded like it came from our alley, very close. Each blast seemed perfectly timed apart, can fireworks do that? Or a semi-automatic weapon?
Listening to the audio it isn’t too fast for gunfire. Hopefully these drug addled heroine pushing meth making turds will kill each other off.
15th & 104th – totally sounded like gunshots (followed by subsequent police sirens).
My security camera caught the audio, it does sound like fireworks to me and not gunshots. 103rd/15th. Here’s the audio/video clip:
https://vidd.me/v/1mV
Fireworks yes, gun shots no. We live a couple blocks from there and were woken up as well by that rude display as well.
12th Ave NE & NE 94th. I heard what sounded like fireworks also. Seemed to fast to be a gun. Also a loud boom. Sirens seemed far away. I figured it was those darn May Day protesters.
I heard it too. 0142 from 90th and 20th NE.
We live on 95th east of 15th and were also woken by the noise and it sounded like fireworks to us too. We heard the subsequent sirens, which must have been heading north to Pinehurst.
They were fireworks. We were woken up from a dead sleep to some of them coming over the fence into our backyard. We live on 15th and 95th. A little bit later there were police with sirens going north on 15th but they didn’t seem to stop in the neighborhood.
I awoke (95th/Roosevelt) to catch to the last few explosions. My impression was gunshots, not fireworks. I heard the sirens, too, but they sounded much farther off.
It sounded like fireworks to us.
15th and 97th here. Woke up gasping for air at the sound. ilIt sounded like fireworks- there was a Hugh pitched “phew”sound then a big pop- probably 10 -12 explosions.