Less than two days after the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) removed neighbor-installed steel planters and replaced them with concrete barriers spaced wide enough for a car to drive through, gunfire again rattled the North Aurora neighborhood early Sunday morning.
Shots were reported around 6 a.m. Sunday, roughly three blocks west of the new traffic-calming installation that Mayor Katie Wilson’s office had installed Friday. Officers responding to that shooting could hear additional gunfire coming from another location nearby, according to resident accounts shared with KIRO Newsradio.
According to neighbors, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) later located shell casings just north of 102nd Street and Evanston Avenue North, roughly 50 feet from a daycare.
What happened overnight
Resident Andrew Steelsmith, who has been documenting the violence and city response in real time, said the night escalated hours before sunrise…