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  • Kurt Cobain: Seattle Police Release Photos of Suicide Gun for First Time

    Kurt Cobain: Seattle Police Release Photos of Suicide Gun for First Time

    Kurt Cobain committed suicide more than twenty years ago, and on Wednesday, Seattle police released photos of the suicide gun he used. This is the first time anyone not related to the investigation has seen the photos.

    Page Six reports the photos were taken last June and posted to the Seattle Police Department’s website on Wednesday.

    Seattle police cold case Detective Mike Ciesynski is shown holding Kurt Cobain’s gun at different angles in a total of five photos.

    No one has said why photos of the gun were taken and posted to the police department’s website. Calls for comment from Page Six went unanswered on Thursday.

    Kurt Cobain took his life some days before his body was found on April 8, 1984. He had taken a large dose of heroin and then killed himself with the 20-gauge shotgun.

    On the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, Detective Mike Ciesynski reviewed the files and determined there was nothing there to lead anyone to think the grunge rocker and Nirvana front man didn’t commit suicide. Ciesynski found a few roles of film that hadn’t been developed. He developed and posted those pictures on the website at that time.

    Kurt Cobain was just 27 when he died.

  • Seattle Police Using Twitter To Recover Stolen Cars

    The Seattle Police Department has started a new Twitter account to tweet information about stolen vehicles with the hopes of helping victims of auto theft recover their property sooner.

    When a car is reported stolen in Seattle, employees in the Seattle Police 911 Center will tweet the color, year, make, model, body style and license plate of the stolen car.  Twitter followers who spot a car that has been tweeted as stolen on “Get your car back” can call 911.

     

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    All 911 calls will be screened to ensure that the car information is correctly matched and to verify that the car has not been returned to its rightful owner. If the car is still listed as stolen, the information will be broadcast so that officers can respond to the area.

    According to the department, through October, 3,011 cars have been stolen in Seattle. That is an average of 9.9 a day, up from 8.46 cars per day during the same period a year ago.

    “I believe that this program will integrate seamlessly into our strategy to prevent and reduce auto theft in Seattle,” said Seattle Police Department Chief, John Diaz.

    “It will also serve to increase public awareness on the subject.”