Today at 2:42pm we heard on the scanner that there was a group of 20 "known gang members" hanging around the park. Police responded in large numbers and reported the situation as "under control".
There was no aid response nor any mention of victims, so I don't think anyone was hurt.
At the Seattle corner late Wednesday, under a blue tarp, more than a dozen teens and young adults gathered to mourn. They shared hugs and shed tears for a fallen friend, Allen Joplin, a Seattle public high school student and gridiron standout who was fatally shot at a party a week ago on Elliott Avenue West, near the Olympic Sculpture Park...