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Monday, February 2, 2009

Crime / City Apartment Wars

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:58 PM

Seattle Police were called to the Mission Inn apartments—near the intersection of Boylston and Howell on Capitol Hill—on Sunday after a resident reported that their windows were shot out over the weekend.

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According to building manager Gary Huth, over the weekend, some one fired steel BBs through three windows and the balcony door of a third-floor apartment. “All but one window was shot out,” Huth says. "It’ll cost us about $3,000 to fix it."

Huth says he doesn't know who would've shot out his building's windows or why that particular unit might've been targeted, but he believes he knows where the BBs came from. "We lined up all the [BB] holes. [The shots] came from one apartment building across the street," Huth says.

Huth says he has not contacted the other building's management. "That's the [SPD's] job," he says.

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What a wonderful place to live.

Posted by Publius on February 2, 2009 at 2:04 PM

Maybe someone was trying to put that ugly-ass building out of its misery.

Posted by JC on February 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM

Looks like somebody got a new Red Ryder BB gun for Xmas.

Posted by Geni on February 2, 2009 at 2:30 PM

Ah, it's nice to remember we're still in the wild west, where your neighbors will still occasionally get liquored up and shoot out your windows. To the west!

Posted by erostratus on February 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM

Wait, you can line up BB holes in glass? I'd be really curious to see how that works.

Posted by Stoppin ze throwinze on February 2, 2009 at 2:59 PM

Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
...
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Posted by kinaidos on February 2, 2009 at 3:22 PM

@5: Have you never watched a cop show on tv? After the projectile goes through the glass it usually keeps going untill it hits something that stops it. Line up those two holes with a stick/laser pointer and you have the approximate flight path of the projectile.

Posted by Henry on February 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM

I'd always been told that that building was a women's shelter of some sort.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay on February 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM

Man, The Stranger staff is getting lazy. Is google OK with you using Street View images for publication? I noticed you edited out the Copyright 2009 Google at the bottom of the page. It's only 6.5 blocks, walk your ass down there and take a picture.

The BB gun must have been a cheapie if they were using steel BBs. The photo is looking southwest. If it was the north facing side that had the windows broken, there's really only one place it could have come from one other building.

Posted by Neighbor_to_shootup on February 2, 2009 at 4:01 PM

Image is not from Google. It's from the linked dept. of neighborhoods page.

Posted by jonahsl on February 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM

#8 - when I lived down the street in the early-mid 90's, I was told the same thing. The only residents I ever saw were women.

Posted by Dougsf on February 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM

It used to be a home for mentally ill women that was operated by a local mental health agency. The owner kept raising the rent and the agency could no longer afford to keep running it and was forced to relocate all the women. After that it was turned into a regular apartment building.

Posted by suckerfish on February 2, 2009 at 4:57 PM

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

slow news day

v e r y s l o w

Posted by Jean Francois on February 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM

@ 2 Funny, when I first saw the picture I thought, "What a lovely looking old apartment building."

Posted by homage to me on February 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM

I have this mental image of CSI-style white yarn stretched across the room from each BB hole in the wall to the windows. It is a very humorous and whimsical picture.

Posted by Greg on February 2, 2009 at 5:28 PM

@14,

Me too. I like the periwinkle shutters.

Posted by keshmeshi on February 2, 2009 at 5:29 PM