Share this story... Rantz: Seattle just saw its deadliest June in over a decade, up 125% over same month last year An officer takes photos of the crime scene after a shooting in Seattle. (KIRO 7) Seattle experienced its deadliest June in at least 13 years, signaling the potential for another record-breaking year of violent crime. Will this be “summer of love,” the sequel? There were nine homicides registered in Seattle last month, according to data collected by the Seattle Police Department. That’s the highest number of recorded homicides Seattle has seen in June since 2008, the earliest year publicly available from the Seattle Crime Dashboard. It represents a 125% higher homicide rate than in June of 2020.