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Shots fired at troubled SeaTac Motel 6

SEATAC, Wash. — Gunshots were fired at a Motel 6 in SeaTac where there were hundreds of police calls last year and a murder in 2016.

Shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday, the clerk of the motel at 18900 47th Avenue South called police to report that a gunshot had been fired from one occupied guest room into another.

No one was injured, but SeaTac police and King County Sheriff’s Office deputies detained three people, including at least one with an outstanding warrant.

There have been more than 400 police calls for service at the motel in 2017, after "over 660 police calls for service" in 2016, according to investigative documents obtained by KIRO 7 in December.

According to documents, "There have been hundreds of drug and prostitution related cases that have come out of this motel and its parking lot in recent years,” including "homicides, assault, stolen cars, shootings, gang activity" and more.

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Its parking lot is where 27-year-old Justin Love was shot and killed on Aug. 31, 2016.

Sgt. Cindi West of the King County Sheriff's Office explained that the hundreds of police "calls for service" do not mean hundreds of separate crimes committed, but indicate how often deputies show up, sometimes just to check, in addition to 911 responses.  Each time is considered a "police call," according to West.

Efforts to increase safety at the motel are ongoing.