One woman dead, seven injured – including child – in downtown Seattle shooting
Credit to Author: David Carrigg| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 04:36:02 +0000
A woman was killed and seven people wounded in a shooting in downtown Seattle on Wednesday afternoon.
According to media reports, the incident occurred shortly after 5 p.m. near 3rd Avenue and Pine Street — three blocks east of the Pike Place Market.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best told The Seattle Times that there were multiple shooters, with the violence set off by a dispute outside the McDonalds restaurant at the corner of Pine and 3rd.
Best said police responding to the incident found the eight victims in a one-and-a-half block radius. One person – a woman in her 40s – died at the scene and the others were taken to hospital.
“There were a lot of people outside, guns came out, and people started running,” Best said.
According to a spokeswoman at Harborview Medical Center, a woman in her 50s was in critical condition and a nine-year-old boy was in serious condition.
Four others — a 35-year-old man, a 32-year-old man, a 21-year-old man, and a 34-year-old man — were in satisfactory condition, while a 49-year-old man had been treated and released by Wednesday evening. The victims were suffering from gunshot wounds to the legs, chest, buttocks and abdomen.
This handout image taken by Nikesh Parekh and posted on his Twitter account shows police activity at the scene of a shooting which left one dead and five injured on 4th Avenue and Pine street in downtown Seattle, Washington State on January 22, 2020.
Witnesses reported hearing a steady volley of gunfire, leading to chaos on the streets as people fled in multiple directions. One victim was found inside the lobby of a building, another outside that building and another outside a coffee shop and another inside that coffee shop.
It was the third shooting in downtown Seattle in less than two days.
A suspect in this shooting has not been arrested.