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One person is in custody after gunfire was reported in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood Thursday afternoon, police said. Officers responded to reports of shots fired in the 4500 block of South Trenton Street, according to police. There are no reports of injuries, the police department said.

A South Seattle grandfather is believed to have killed his daughter and granddaughter on Monday night after being confronted about allegedly sexually abusing the 11-year-old girl, according to Seattle police. The grandfather, identified by sources as Honorario Yango, 78, then killed himself. A source close to the investigation said Wednesday that the girl, Anahlia Cowherd, 11, had blogged…

Officers arrested two teen boys in South Seattle and are looking for a third after they allegedly attacked a former classmate who had transferred schools to get away from them, police said. The victim, a 13-year-old boy, stepped off a Metro bus in Rainier Beach just before 5 p.m. Wednesday and saw the three suspects across…

Seattle police are investigating a stabbing in the 4500 block of South Henderson Street in the Rainier Beach neighborhood. Police spokesman Drew Fowler said officers were dispatched around 6:30 a.m. for a report of a man who broke into an apartment and stabbed a woman while she was sleeping. The woman managed to get the man off…

Police say the bridge of a 16-year-old girl’s glasses deflected a drive-by shooting bullet in Rainier Beach Saturday night, saving her from possibly fatal injuries. Witnesses say suspects shot from a dark sedan at about 9:40 p.m. into a home  in the 5400 block of South Roxbury Street. Several people, including children, were in the home …

UPDATE: 9 p.m. | Police investigators have found no suspect or victims at the scene of shots fired in Rainier Beach, Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt said. ORIGINAL POST | Seattle police are investigating reports of a man firing shots near 54th Avenue South and South Fletcher Street, per a tweet from the department. A K-9 team is…

For the second time this week, firefighters found a marijauna-grow operation after responding to a fire sparked by an illegal power diversion. Two firefighters were hurt while dousing a house fire in the Skyway neighborhood. In the basement, firefighters were “shocked” by an “unsophisticated” wiring system which fed a marijuana crop of between 100 to 200 plants. The wiring was…

The Associated Press A shooting victim who lay dying in the parking lot of a south Seattle fast food restaurant as a hostile crowd challenged police officers has been identified. The King County medical examiner’s office says 31-year-old Courtney Taylor died late Wednesday of multiple gunshot wounds. Seattle police spokesman Mark Jamieson says medics couldn’t reach the wounded…

UPDATE AT 10:25 A.M THURSDAY: Police now say the victim was 31 years old, not 20. Seattle Times staff and Associated Press Police say a hostile crowd delayed emergency responders from helping a man as he lay dying from multiple gunshot wounds Wednesday night in the parking lot of a South Seattle fast food restaurant. The 20 31-year-old…

Officers gather and talk at the site of a shooting where two people were injured near the 9400 block of Rainier Ave. S. Tuesday night. (Photo by Ellen Banner / The Seattle Times) SPD Deputy Chief Nick Metz addressing reporters at the scene, asks for help spreading word of a "huge increase" in shootings in Seattle….