Seattle Police and Seattle Fire were called to the scene outside Club Cultura and the Comet around 1:10 AM.
According to emergency radio updates, three people were hit in the gunfire.
Police were collecting evidence at the scene including security video that reportedly captured the incident.
Police were searching for at least two suspects involved in the shooting. Three people were reported taken into custody along Broadway but police reported no arrests had been made and officers were continuing to search the area.
E Pike and 10th Ave were closed to traffic in all directions at the scene.
The nightlife shooting comes after a deadly year of gun violence in Pike/Pine. CHS reported last fall on calls for increased public safety efforts. District 3 leader Joy Hollingsworth released a five-point plan of “immediate actions” needed to address the violence and ongoing safety issues in the area. They include initiatives raised a year earlier following a previous homicide. At the core of that call was “consistent Increased presence” of police in the area.
East Precinct officials say they have begun placing rookies and fresh recruits to the Seattle Police force on the streets of the neighborhood’s nightlife core every weekend to help with the ongoing surges of public safety issues. Joe Elenbaas, the East Precinct Crime Prevention Coordinator, said SPD has been working on ways to prevent and combat violent crimes and disturbances along Pike/Pine’s “nightlife corridor,” including the new program and increased foot patrols during peak weekend hours and frequent meetings with the area’s restaurants, bars and security staff.
Mayor Katie Wilson in March, put on hold the planned and budgeted expansion of SPD’s Real Time Crime Center camera system to the Central District and the Pike/Pine and Broadway area near where Monday morning’s shooting took place. The mayor announced the pause and “a privacy and data governance audit” of the city’s surveillance technology citing concerns over how law enforcement and federal authorities might access and use the technology.
Gun incidents have continued in the area with reports of shots fired during a fight last month near Broadway and Thomas and two people arrested after threats with a gun at Dave’s Hot Chicken. In March, a man reportedly accidentally shot himself when he dropped his gun waiting in line at Eggslut. That month also brought the arrest of a teen police say shot up 11th Ave pizza bar A Pizza Mart in a dispute with security.
The ongoing gun incidents have come during what King County officials have said has been an overall downturn in gun violence since the pandemic.
Weekend nightlife public safety concerns in Pike/Pine, however, have been growing with spring and summer months approaching. Last weekend, East Precinct command reported a spike in arrests on the same block where Monday morning’s shooting occurred.
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