Seattle shooting leaves 1 dead, at least 7 wounded, 'multiple' suspects on the loose
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A dispute between "multiple" people led to a shooting in downtown Seattle during Wednesday's rush hour that killed one person and critically wounded at least seven others, including a 9-year-old boy, police said.
Investigators are searching for the suspects who fled in "all directions," Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best told reporters.
Gunshots rang out around 5 p.m. near Pine Street and 4th Avenue, less than a half-mile from a separate officer-involved shooting that had taken place hours before, Q13 Fox reported. A woman was found dead at the earlier scene, the Seattle Fire Department told Fox News. Best said they have no evidence that the shootings were related.
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Three men, ages 21, 34, and 35 were wounded and listed in stable condition, fire officials said. The 9-year-old boy was in serious condition and a 50-year-old woman was in critical condition and underwent surgery, Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins told reporters. Scoggins said all over victims are in stable condition.
The shooting started when a dispute outside of a McDonald's between several people led to shots fired by "multiple" shooters, Best said at a news conference shortly before 8 p.m.
Homicide and gang units are at the scene. She said details about the shooting are "murky" but there's no further danger to the public.
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Susan Gregg, a spokeswoman at Harborview Medical Center, said three men suffered gunshot wounds to their legs, buttocks, chest and abdomen, The Seattle Times reported.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement, "I am sick for those impacted by the gun violence in Seattle tonight."
A witness told KING-TV she was in a coffee shop when she heard gunshots.
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“Everyone just went to the ground and as we were looking out the windows people were running,” she said. She said police responded and put a tourniquet on one man's leg before he was taken to a hospital.
The University of Washington's Harborview Medical Center told Fox News the hospital was expecting patients.
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In the first shooting, a suspect was taken to a hospital and was being treated for non-life threatening injuries. No officers or deputies with the King County Sheriff's Office were injured. The shooting was the city's third in the downtown area in two days.