A North Seattle father is documenting a string of shootings around his home after bullets tore into his house just feet from his baby’s bassinet.
SEATTLE — Bullets tore into the side of a North Seattle home and stopped just feet from a six-week-old baby’s bassinet this month.
After a string of shootings in the neighborhood, families living near Seattle’s Aurora corridor are demanding action.
Neighbors near Greenwood say overnight gunfire has become a recurring issue in the area. Residents have documented multiple shootings involving dozens of shell casings, damaged vehicles and bullets striking homes.
“It’s not enough,” said resident Jake of the city’s response. “Our neighborhood feels like collateral damage. And it’s only a matter of time until somebody gets seriously hurt.”
Jake, who asked to withhold his last name, said surveillance cameras captured gunfire erupting near his home around 4:24 a.m. on May 16 near North 98th Street and Linden Avenue North. He said more than 20 shell casings littered the street afterward and bullets struck his home near the bedroom, where his infant son sleeps.
“The rounds went into the siding of my house,” Jake said. “His bassinet is right underneath the window.”
Residents say the May 16 shooting was one of several recent incidents in the neighborhood. Jake and other neighbors have compiled videos, photographs and incident numbers that they say document at least eight shootings within roughly 10 blocks of their homes over the past month.
Among the incidents neighbors tracked:
- April 23 near North 107th Street and Aurora Avenue North, where residents reported more than a dozen gunshots.
- May 3 near North 107th Street and Linden Avenue North, where residents reported more than 25 shell casings.
- May 7 near North 100th Street between Aurora and Linden, where residents said 8 to 15 shots were fired.
- May 17 near North 97th and 98th streets along Linden Avenue North, where neighbors reported a shot fired from a vehicle.
- Two additional shootings reported early May 18 near North 97th Street and Aurora Avenue North and near North 101st Street and Linden Avenue North.
Jake and several neighbors believe much of the violence is connected to prostitution-related activity along Aurora Avenue spilling into nearby residential streets.
Peter Orr, another resident, said his children found more than a dozen shell casings near a bus stop after one of the shootings.
“When they can’t get away from each other, they come into our neighborhood and bring it here,” Orr said.
Data publicly available through the Seattle Police Department shows Greenwood recorded fewer shots-fired calls this year compared to the same point in 2025. Police data reviewed by KING 5 showed five shots-fired calls recorded through May 17, compared to 13 during the same timeframe last year.
Seattle police said the shootings remain under investigation.
“The Seattle Police Department understands the concerns residents in the area feel,” Seattle police spokesperson Sergeant Patrick Michaud said in a statement. “The department actively patrols Aurora as time and call load allows. The shootings remain active investigation but if there is a connection we will make that determination as it moves on.”
Jake said he has spent weeks emailing police, councilmembers, the mayor’s office and state lawmakers while documenting shootings in hopes of drawing more attention to the violence near his neighborhood.
“We’ve been shaken ever since it happened,” Jake said, “but we haven’t even had a moment to calm down.”
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