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Three Men Show Up To Rainier Beach HS Looking For Shooting Witnesses, Assault Security

News   March 16, 2011 at 12:30 pm Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

Three security staff members at Rainier Beach High School were assaulted last week by a group of men who showed on the school’s campus looking to confront a group of girls who may have witnessed a shooting.

Last Tuesday, March 8th, someone fired several shots near Rainier Beach High School, according to a Seattle school district spokeswoman. Police apparently contacted a possible suspect following the incident, but it’s unclear whether anyone was arrested.

Two days after the incident, police records say a group of three men showed up at Rainier Beach High School at about 10:15 am.

School security stopped two of the men in the school hallway and asked them to leave campus. The men ignored the security officers, pushed past them, and tried to confront a group of female students, according to a police report.

School security struggled with the men, who were joined by a third suspect. The report says two of the suspects are brothers, while the third suspect has previously been trespassed from Rainier Beach.

During the confrontation, one of the suspects threatened to return to the school and shoot security officers, telling them “I am going to come back and spray all you niggers.”

The three men then left the school, flashing gang signs at security staff as they drove away.

School security told police they believe the suspects came to Rainier Beach looking “looking to retaliate” against a group of female students who witnessed a shooting near the school several days earlier.




  • tiffanycc

    I can’t imagine being a student there. It must be nearly impossible to come through the experience in a good enough position to make it into college. So sad.

    I would like to think there are some real repurcussions for the idiots who intended to threaten the girls. In reality, nothing will probably come of it.

  • Josh

    I am wondering where the part of the story is that had Seattle police responding, locking them up and a judge setting bail at least at $250,000?! These gangs just operate with impunity. Unless someone comes up with a law that results in felony charges from this type of behavior, it won’t stop. How come racketeering laws worked against Al Capone but we are not using them against gangs that recruit children to murder? Shouldn’t they at least be one rung worse than a pimp?

  • phb

    Barbaric behaviour, animalistic. In a place where kids are supposed to feel safe, we let animals roam free. We need tougher laws, we need to make prison and crime a punishment again, not a notch on a gang members belt.

  • dd

    Would you want the police to be able to lock you up for a crime you allegedly committed if the police had no proof it was you? Of course not, right? Well, if everyone, including the adult security staff who recognized these brothers, is too intimidated to testify, there’s no proof and thus no prosecution.

  • gotti sux

    Umm, Al Capone was convicted on tax evasion charges. As other mafia types have shown through history, making racketeering charges stick is harder than it should be.

  • alki50

    Nothing will happen until enough people get fed up with this BS! People still refuse to believe there is a problem.

  • Reason

    What would it be like to be a security guard at RBHS? They should arm those guys with tasers.

  • MattOnJackson

    School security should wear firearms. It is difficult to counter deadly force with non-lethal force.

  • يمين

    The way you posted what the suspects said was wrong and makes them sound white and racist. I can guarantee it sounded more like ” umma come back and spray you niggas”.

  • Reason

    It’s better than a flashlight, and putting guns in schools (on anyone) is a stupid idea.

  • Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

    That’s exactly how it was written in the police report.

  • solidox

    Three guys looking to beat up some girls… What a bunch of raging pussies. QED

  • shamwow

    Perhaps you could have just left the quote part out. The point is that they stated they would come back to shoot. The first sentence says that. Do you really need to quote the police officer who quoted the witness quoting the suspect? I don’t see a use for the quote other than to throw the word around. It doesn’t clarify anything in the story.

  • Hmme

    I think the quote adds quite a bit to the story. It’s ugly language, but it’s helpful for those of us that weren’t there to understand what was said. There’s a big difference between “I’m going to get you” and what was said to the security guards yet both mean essentially the same thing.

  • MattOnJackson

    How so? Guns are everywhere. What difference does the location have anything to do with it? Right now the only option for security is to run if confronted with a gun. You think you can reason with someone who states that they are going to come back and spray them? They didn’t respect them when they told them to leave. There is only one thing irrational people respect – force. And I would feel

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