Woman shot during robbery at Seattle massage parlor on Jackson Street
By Alexa Strabuk 譚文曠
On November 17, Seattle Police Department officers arrived at the 600 block of South Jackson Street shortly before midnight in response to reports of an apparent robbery. When they arrived, they found an adult woman with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Paramedics with the Seattle Fire Department provided aid and then transported her to Harborview Medical Center in “serious but stable condition.”
“It’s never been this bad,” said Binko Chiong Bisbee, store owner of KOBO at Higo, to King 5 News. “I’ve been here for 20 years and this is not a normal situation. Something is happening to our neighborhood.”
A subsequent investigation revealed that two unidentified suspects entered the business, demanding money. After a dispute between them and the gunshot victim, a shot was fired, hitting the woman. The suspects then fled the scene with stolen cash. It’s unclear if the victim was an employee or patron of the business.
“I’m scared, it’s just crazy out here. No, I don’t feel safe here anymore and I grew up out here. It’s so unfortunate,” an anonymous CID resident who heard the emergency response told KOMO News. “I had no idea what had happened. I usually just stay inside.”
Kenneth Woods, who regularly takes the bus in the area for work, tries to get a ride home at night for his own safety. He said that the neighborhood needs more protection.
Police investigating death of man run over in alley
By Chetanya Robinson
Seattle police are investigating the death of a man who was run over in an alley at the 500 block of King Street on November 8.
Police were dispatched around 9:15 p.m. According to police records, surveillance from a business to the west of the alley showed a driver turn into the alley and strike the man who was on the ground. According to police records, the driver did not see the man and ran him over twice. He was familiar with the alley and thought the vehicle had struck a grate in the alley. According to police records, the man sustained class 4 injuries to his head and torso.
Moments before being struck, the man had fallen down in the alley. After the collision, the driver left the vehicle and walked around it before returning to the vehicle, driving to his workplace (which owned the vehicle), and reported the collision to his employer.
Members of the night watch group CID Community Watch came to the alley after seeing police lights there. Members thought the man had overdosed until surveillance footage was reviewed, according to Tanya Woo, the group’s co-founder and a former Seattle City Council member. She said surveillance footage showed the man drinking in the alley before he fell over, and that emergency responders provided CPR to no avail.
Woo noted that the collision occurred on the same day as several stabbing attacks in the neighborhood targeting people living outdoors, and speculated that the two incidents were related. “I think this man who was run over was afraid to go to Hing Hay Park, felt safer drinking in the alley and may have been drinking more than usual to deal with the trauma of the stabbings,” Woo wrote in an email to the Examiner. “Nothing happens in a vacuum. Every event in the CID causes another event…sweeps always drive people into the CID businesses and many close early. The emphasis patrols and clean ups caused a man a lot of traumatic anxiety which resulted in the stabbings.”
