SEATTLE — Homicide detectives from the Seattle Police Department (SPD) are investigating a deadly overnight shooting.
In a blotter post, SPD said officers responded shortly after midnight to reports of a person being shot at the intersection of North 104th Street and Aurora Avenue North. Upon arrival, officers found a 31-year-old man with a gunshot wound.
The victim was transported to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition, but he ended up being pronounced dead at the hospital.
SPD says the circumstances that led up to the shooting are unknown at this time.
Family members tell KING 5 that the 31-year-old was a father and a well-known local rap artist who went by the name Lavish Rich.
The violence that took his life is weighing on neighbors along Aurora Avenue.
"Aurora has always been crazy, but not this bad," said Cherry Duong who has a business close to where the shooting happened.
"The guy ran over here bleeding and saying 'Call the police, call the police,'" said Brian Blake who has a catering business on Aurora Avenue. "It is kind of getting squirrely and scary out here. It is almost daily on Aurora now where somebody is getting shot or shots are fired."
According to Seattle police, in the North Precinct there were 15 homicides last year, and so far this year through the end of July, there have been eight.
"They need to do something because this is out of control. Every day it is getting worse. I don't see it getting better at all," said Duong.
"You got to take care of the guns, the drugs, the prostitution and that is a whole lot of list right there, and we have all been struggling for years to clean it up," said Blake.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.