A silver Maserati SUV was targeted in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, according to police.
The shooting happened around 12:20 p.m. in the 10200 block of Linden Avenue North. Video captured by a person’s surveillance camera shows a Jeep almost pinned in a Maserati. The Jeep’s passenger window comes down, and the driver steps out and unloads a barrage of bullets as the Maserati speeds away. Responding officers found more than half a dozen shell casings at the scene.
“Seeing it right outside my neighbors house 12:15 in the afternoon, it just enraged me really,” said Andrew Steelsmith, who shared the video of the shooting to social media.
No injuries were reported, and officers could not locate either vehicle during a search of the area.
Steelsmith says another shooting had happened outside the same house earlier this year. It’s part of an ongoing rash of gun violence he has seen in the neighborhood for years.
Some of it is in the immediate vicinity of Aurora Avenue, the corridor that has been nearly synonymous with gun violence and prostitution. He and several neighbors have a network of cameras capturing the issues.
The shooter’s face in Saturday’s shooting is relatively visible in the video Steelsmith posted. Steelsmith even identified where he thinks the suspect hangs out, but Steelsmith doesn’t believe that is a deterrent.
“It’s someone that we’ve been warning police about,” Steelsmith said.
“They don’t care, they’re not hiding anything,” he said of the suspect caught on video. ”They’re obvious about it, they’re untouchable they don’t care any videos of shootings any vidoes of they’re chasing women into the middle of aurora, it’s all notoriety for them they like the attention because the police can’t do anything.”
Given the violence that has happened, the City Council created a “Stay out of Areas of Prostitution” ordinance to try and give police more tools to address Steelsmith’s concerns. It changed penalties and laws to address prostitution and gun violence issues and was passed in September and Steelsmith is questioning how much it has been implemented.
“There are some officers that I’ve spoken to in the last few months that didn’t even understand that there were new laws,” Steelsmith said.
On a weekend, SPD could not directly confirm that they are aware of the suspect captured in the video, nor could directly respond to Steelsmith’s claim officers are not aware of the changes, though did address their activity on Aurora Avenue.
“A proactive car N91 to patrol every day and every night just to Aurora to have a presence and be proactive in making stops to cut down on the gun violence there. We have made several excellent arrests where numerous guns have been recovered. I believe this has assisted in controlling the gun violence on Aurora,” a statement from SPD’s North Precinct Command said.
Police are urging anyone with information to call 911 or the Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000. Tips can be submitted anonymously.
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