Police: Multiple people shot in downtown Seattl

SEATTLE — A gunman opened fireplace in downtown Seattle on Wednesday night, killing one particular person and wounding seven others, authorities said.

Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins said authorities began receiving calls at about 5 p.m. Wednesday of extra than one gunshot victims. One particular person was as soon as came all the scheme in which thru ineffective in a closely trafficked station of downtown and five others were taken to a Seattle health facility, he said.

The Seattle Times reported later Wednesday evening that police said seven other folks were being treated at a health facility for gunshot wounds.

Susan Gregg, a spokeswoman at Harborview Medical Heart, said a lady was as soon as in extreme condition, a particular person was as soon as in serious condition and five other males were in sufficient condition with gunshot wounds to the legs, chest, buttocks and abdomen.

Police Chief Carmen Most effective said what they deem is a lone suspect fled and police are taking a look him. Extra than one police gadgets, including homicide and gang gadgets, are on the scene, she said.

Tyler Parsons was as soon as working the register internal Victrola Espresso Store nearby when the shooting befell, the Seattle Times reported. He heard no shots — they play music loud in the retailer, Parsons said — nonetheless customers began losing to the ground.

Of us were running on the support of the register, taking duvet. He hustled 5 – 6 customers internal a support storage station, alongside with a coworker.

He waited a few minutes sooner than strolling support out. Parsons went into the building lobby and seen two victims: one initiating air, lying in front of the building, visibly injured nonetheless alive and provocative. The second was as soon as internal the lobby, up towards the protection desk, with an apparent gunshot injure to the leg. He muttered, “I concentrate on I bought shot, I concentrate on I bought shot,” Parsons said.

Samantha Cook dinner, 40, of Edmonds, said she was as soon as refilling her transit card in Westlake Place when she heard the shots.

“I was as soon as on the first space of escalators,” Cook dinner said. “There were so a lot of gunshots that began going off — per chance 10 or 11. It was as soon as appropriate quick fireplace.”

The scene was as soon as chaotic, she said.

It be the third downtown Seattle shooting in two days. Police came all the scheme in which thru a particular person with a gunshot injure in a mall stairwell Tuesday afternoon, who later died at a health facility. Police shot a particular person in a single other station of downtown Seattle earlier on Wednesday.