SEATTLE — Residents of Seattle's Central District want answers from police after back-to-back shootings just blocks from Seattle University.
The latest happened exactly one week after a Seattle U student was stabbed near campus.
A concerned neighborhood group will meet with police.
Neighbors along the 800 block of 16th Avenue woke up to a crime scene.
"Saw them taping off the sidewalk and I think looking through some of the neighbor's yards," said resident Claire Lane.
Seattle police found a 37-year-old man lying on the street after being shot in the chest.
The victim told police he saw the shooter drive off in a red Corvette.
Police later found that car parked two blocks away. They are still investigating. No one has been arrested.
On Monday night, someone fired shots into four parked cars, a business and a home at 23rd and Spring Street.
Earlier that same day a 19-year-old man was shot in the leg at 12th and East Jefferson.
Online crime stats show the three incidents happened just blocks from Seattle University.
"Worrisome," is how Joanna Cullen describes the back-to-back incidents.
Cullen is part of the East PAC, East Precinct Advisory Council. http://eastpac.org/
The group works with police on neighborhood concerns.
The three shootings come one week after two teens and a 23-year-old suspect allegedly robbed and stabbed a Seattle University student who was walking to campus.
KIRO7 obtained new court records that show two suspects confessed to the random attack.
The student, Geoff Vincent, tried to fend off the attackers with a “folding knife.”
But police say 16-year-old suspect Kenneth McNeal admitted he used a “brass knuckle knife painted red, white and blue” to stab the victim, severing an artery to the heart.
Following the streak of violence, East Pac is relieved to be meeting with police in a regularly rescheduled meeting.
“We will then be asking the police about relationships between these or what the underlying causes were," said Cullen.
The meeting is open to the public. It is Thursday from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Chardin Hall at Seattle University.
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