One dead following overnight shooting in Capitol Hill

SEATTLE — Seattle Police Department (SPD) is investigating reports of a shooting after one person was killed in Capitol Hill early Monday morning.

According to SPD, 911 (CARE) received a report of a shooting in the 1000 block of East Pike Street shortly before 12:30 a.m. Police say the deadly shooting happened in or near the Teto’s restaurant parking lot on the corner of Pine Street and 10th Avenue.

When officers arrived, they found one person who had been shot and provided aid to the victim until the Seattle Fire Department (SFD) arrived. Despite providing aid, SFD pronounced the victim dead at the scene.

KIRO 7 spoke to a witness, who said she was out late celebrating Pride weekend, “It happened very fast. I was about to leave and as I was getting to my car I heard gunshots ring out from behind me.”

The woman did not want to share her identity publicly considering how close she came to getting shot, “Very scary actually, I had to run for my car.”

The SPD appeared to wrap up their investigation just before 6:30 a.m. with several cars towed away from the lot near where the victim died. Detectives say the circumstances and reason for the shooting are still unknown and under investigation at this time.

The Capitol Hill shooting caps a string of homicides in the last few days. The weekend of June 22, a person was shot and killed on Alki beach in West Seattle, late last week a 14-year-old was shot and killed in South Seattle, and early Sunday morning a 35-year-old man was shot and killed in the Seattle Chinatown-International District.

Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS

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