Shots fired at 47th and Waite late Friday, with a young man hanging out a back window of a small silver car (possibly a Lexus), shooting over the top of the car toward a male running down the street. The shooter wore a black beanie. Later, two people were seen carrying a third to a car parked on Waite Street. (It's unclear whether this is related to the shooting incident.) Officers recovered eight .40-caliber shell casings in the 4700 block of SW Waite.

Spotting fresh graffiti on a South Park apartment wall, an officer stopped to speak with a suspicious-looking juvenile nearby. The youth acted nervous during questioning and kept reaching for his front pocket which, as it turned out, contained a .22-caliber handgun loaded with hollow-point bullets. Taken to the ground and arrested, the 17-year-oldclaimed to be a gang member and said he carried the gun for protection since he had been "jumped" several times. An ID check showed that he was a runaway from Tacoma and was also a convicted felon. He was booked into the Youth Service Center. (Two other suspects in the graffiti incident were last seen in the South Park Library, where a 5-inch fixed-blade knife was later found hidden under a couch in the children's reading area.)

A North-Admiral youth was picked up after citizens reported graffiti in the restroom at E.C. Hughes Park. Walking nearby, he matched the description of the suspect, and he had a can of spray paint in his pocket and paint on his clothing and hands.

Employees arrived to work at a Junction-area bar and found two open doors, a broken neon Budweiser sign, and a destroyed ATM machine. An alarm panel had been ripped from the wall. Over $1,000 worth of liquor was stolen, as was $5,300 cash from the ATM.

Several residents in the 2800 block of Walnut SW discovered their fences and garages spray-painted with graffiti last week.

A 16-year-old boy was detained after trying to steal a bottle of wine from a Morgan-area grocery. He was argumentative and appeared tobe under the influence of a substance. Officers found a plastic bag of suspected psychedelic mushrooms in one of the boy's pockets and a glass marijuana pipe, plastic baggies, and a digital scale in another. He was taken to the SW Precinct and released to his parents.

Someone stole three catalytic converters from delivery vans in a business parking lot.

Four young men were contacted after they were seen after hours in a car at Hamilton Viewpoint. They told officers they had been smoking marijuana and "chillin.'" One got to experience a real chill after he was thrown in the "cooler" at the Youth Service Center on an outstanding felony warrant for 1st-degree theft. None of the others had a driver's license, so they all had to find other ways to get home.The car was impounded.

Mailbox thieves struck in the 5900 block of 21stSW, stealing two boxes of checks. The victim's bank closed the account when the theft was discovered.

When a man rebuffed a woman's kisses, she grabbed a flashlight and hit him several times in the back of the head. The victim needed several staples in his skull to treat the wound. He says the suspect is a friend with addiction problems.

A concerned man called 911 when he saw that his former girlfriend had posted suicidal messages on her Internet blog. An officer spoke with the woman, who has a long history of mental issues, and had her transported to Harborview for observation.

Car prowls: 14th and Trenton, 7th and Orchard, 7100 34th,1300 Alki Ave. SW,6700 Beach Drive SW

Burglaries by block: 900 S. Doris, 2900 Avalon Way, 4600Frontenac, 5400 SW Jacobsen Road, 5400 Fauntleroy Way, 7000 and 4800 CaliforniaAve. SW, 4400 35th SW, 2100 Sunset SW, 7500 35th SW, 2100and 1100 Harbor Ave. SW,