A large police response descended upon the Southwest Seattle Ambulatory Surgery Center in Burien after gunshots were fired at the building on the afternoon of Sept. 19. PLEASE CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE FOR MORE
Update for Sept. 20
Four people are in jail after gunshots were fired from the Fox Hole Apartments on S.W. 160th St. into windows and cars at the Southwest Seattle Ambulatory Center on Sept. 19, according to the arrest record released by the King County Sheriff's Office.
The shooting led to tense moments for students, faculty and parents at nearby Three Tree Montessori and Sylvester Middle School as both went into lockdown mode while police secured the area.
No one was injured.
A 16-year-old female was arrested for reckless endangerment and is considered the alleged shooter. The juvenile had a warrant out for her arrest and was booked into King County Youth Services.
Also inside the apartment where police made the arrests were 20-year-old and 21-year old males booked for investigation of controlled substances. A third male, 20, was arrested for investigation of possession of a stolen firearm and possession of a controlled substance.
Drugs and guns found inside the apartment
The following information comes from the KCSO incident report:
The initial 911 call from the Southwest Seattle Ambulatory Center at 275 S.W. 160th St. was for fireworks.
As the responding officer drove to check it out another 911 call came in changing the call to gunshots.
As the deputy reached the scene she heard bullets fly by her patrol cruiser. Once inside, the officer was led to the first floor break room with a bullet hole in the window and shattered glass on the floor. An employee was sitting in the break room when bullets hit the window, but escaped unharmed.
The deputy went to the second floor break room to investigate several more bullet holes when she looked out the window and saw a white male and female on a Fox Cove Apartment balcony.
When they saw police had responded to the scene, the eventual suspects ducked quickly into their apartment and closed the blinds.
The deputy worked her way to the ambulatory center roof and set up surveillance on the apartment while a search warrant was secured.
Deputies entered the apartment and found the female and two males locked in a bedroom.
Two firearms, a .22 caliber rifle and a .38 caliber revolver, were recovered from the scene along with meth, pills, cocaine and marijuana.
The .38 caliber revolver had been reported stolen.
Update for 3:30 pm
130 kids ages 1 to 12 were kept inside with curtains drawn at Three Tree Point Montessori across the street from incident. Parents came at 3 p.m. to pick them up.
Students at Sylvester Middle School were locked down for a while, according to Highline Schools spokeswoman Catherine Carbone Rogers.
The school went into a modified lockdown at 1:45 p.m.. In a modified lockdown the doors remain closed but students can change classes within the building.
Sylvester students were dismissed at the usual time but students walking home were redirected to 4th Avenue Southwest at South 160th Street and not allowed to walk past the shooting scene.
Automated calls were sent out to parents announcing that all after-school activities had been canceled, according to Rogers.
Police are still investigating where the gunshots came from.
Original post at 2 pm
Burien police are on the hunt for someone who fired gunshots into the windows of the Ambulatory Surgery Center at 275 S.W. 160th St on Monday afternoon, Sept. 19.
Sgt. John Urquhart with the King County Sheriff’s Office confirmed no one was shot or injured as they investigate the “reckless shooting complaint.”
KOMO News reports Sylvester Middle School is on precautionary lockdown until police feel the situation is safe.
Three Tree Montessori school, located across the street from the shooting incident, is also keeping its 130 students, age one to 12, inside and parents were told to pick their children up at 3 p.m.
More details to come.