Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

From SPD:

On 9/6/10, at approximately 8:58 a.m., a man called 911 to report that his wife was walking on the beach when she came across a dead body.  The woman was walking along a remote beach area approximately 1 mile north of Carkeek Park, near the train tracks.

The body is that of a male in his 40′s. Officers and Burlington Northern Staff are on scene. At this point this is a death investigation. If more information is provided, I will update this posting.

For at least the second time in a month, a teen's birthday has ended in gunfire.

Around 1:00 am on Sunday, Police received reports of gunfire at 24th and Cherry near the Garfield Community Center.

According to Seattle Police Department spokeswoman Renee Witt, witnesses at the scene told officers a fight at a Quinceanera—a Latin American celebration of a girl's 15th birthday—inside the community center spilled out into the street.

One of men involved in the fight got a gun and fired four shots, apparently hitting another man in the leg.

The suspect, and several other men, fled the scene, and police stopped and detained five people. It's not clear whether anyone was arrested.

Police officers and gang detectives searched the scene of the shooting and found at least one shell casing.

However, officers were not immediately able to locate a victim.

Last month, police sources say a dispute between rival gang members led to a fatal shooting outside of another quinceanera held at a city-owned facility in South Lake Union.

Details are still scarce at this late hour but it appears police are investigating a shooting which took place shortly before 1:00am near Garfield High School.

Police are looking for a hispanic male got into a blue Honda Civic—occupied by three other people—that fled westbound on Cherry St.

The victim apparently left the scene in a black truck.

From the Blotter:

On 9/4/10, at approximately 2:47 a.m., officers responded to the 9100 block of MLK Wy S to a reported shooting at a motorcycle club-house.  The 2 victims were working as doormen to pat-down persons who weren’t Club members before they came inside.  A male showed up with several females and wanted to get in, but wouldn’t let the doormen touch his clothing.

This lead to a verbal confrontation and shots being fired from the suspect at the doormen.  Seattle Fire responded and treated both victims on the scene. They were later transported to Harborview Medical Center with non life threatening injuries. Both victims had never seen the suspect before and gave only vague physical descriptions of the shooter. One other Club member was outside and he gave a video statement to Officers.

The Gang Unit responded and processed the scene. 2 guns were recovered from Club members at the scene and

A man was shot in the leg in Belltown around 10:45 this evening.

Police were called to a parking lot near 3rd and Bell around 10:45pm, where they found a white male in his 30s with a gunshot wound to his ankle.

More info as we get it.

It's gonna be a loooooooooong night.

At least one man person shot by police in an officer-involved shooting in West Seattle this evening.

Police were responding to a shots-fired call in the 6100 block of Admiral Way just before 9:00pm.

We're told an officer fired on someone, and that person has been taken to Harborview.

We'll update with more info as we get it.

Update: Police initially got a report of a possibly suicidal man, went to a home, and found a man with a rifle.

Police say the 59-year-old man pointed an AK-47-style gun at officers before officers opened fire.

The man's current condition is unknown.

PI.com:

A Seattle police officer has been convicted of driving under the influence in Grays Harbor County.

Prosecutors say Zsolt Dornay handed his police identification with his driver's license when he was stopped and later asked a State Patrol trooper, "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Zsolt Dornay was arrested last year in Grays Harbor County and convicted Thursday.

Whether Dornay was implying a request for leniency when he handed his police identification with his license is subject to interpretation, Grays Harbor Deputy Prosecutor Gordon Wright said.

The minimum sentence Dornay could receive is one day in jail or 15 days of electronic home monitoring, Wright said. He also has to pay an $866 fine, attend a victim-impact panel, get an alcohol evaluation and possibly pay restitution for trooper's time, according to prosecutors.

Seattle police say a woman was slashed in the face during an altercation at a Belltown shelter earlier this week.

Shortly before 3:30 on August 31st, police were called to a shelter at 3rd and Virginia after receiving a report that a woman had been stabbed.

Police arrived and found a large group of women standing outside the shelter yelling that another woman inside was armed with a knife.

Officers entered the building and found and "extensive amount" of blood in several rooms, and also located the suspect, who they arrested and took to the West Precinct.

A witness told police she was in the women's bathroom when she saw the suspect approach the victim from behind.

The suspect put her arm around the victim's neck, and "made a slashing/stabbing motion at the right side" of the victim's face.

The victim sustained a 6-inch wound on her face and was taken to Harborview for her injuries.

It looks like this (minimalism):

   Author: 7592 - CLAXTON, JUSTIN C.
   Subject: NARRATIVE
Related date/time: Aug-30-2010 1800
On the above time, date and location Witness / Birk was on routine patrol
and contacted Suspect / Doe for a weapon-open knife violation.  Suspect /
Doe refused to drop the knife.    
 
Suspect /Doe was shot and was
declared dead at the scene by SFD Medic One.  The scene was then turned
over to Homicide Detectives.
I hereby declare (certify) under penalty of perjury under the laws of the
State of Washington that this report is true and correct to the best of
my knowledge and belief (RCW 9A.72.085)

The first thing I noticed about this report (other than the complete lack of information): It appears that it was written by an officer with just as little (or possibly even less) experience than Officer Ian Birk, who fatally shot John Williams in downtown Seattle earlier this week.

Police say Birk has been with the department for two years. Officer Claxton, who wrote the report for the shooting, doesn't even show up on the city's 2009 employee list.