Massive manhunts in Seattle after 3 die in separate shootings

[dixiegrrrrl]

Source: LA Times ...May 30, 2012, 1:30 p.m

SEATTLE -- Seattle was paralyzed at midday Wednesday by two shootings that occurred within half an hour of each other in two of the city’s most congested areas, sparking massive manhunts for what initially appeared to be two different suspects.

The first shooting occurred about 11 a.m. at a popular cafe near the University of Washington. An unidentified gunman opened fire on five people, killing two of them and critically wounding the others.

Half an hour later, a woman was shot and killed in an apparent carjacking in downtown Seattle in a parking lot near the city’s Town Hall lecture center. Witnesses said the suspect fled in a black sport utility vehicle. A short while later, a vehicle matching the description was found abandoned in another part of town.

At least five schools and two community centers were placed on modified lockdown near the university district as police fanned out in a dragnet, cordoning off several blocks and conducting intensive, building-to-building searches. Witnesses described watching police, with guns drawn, question one man matching the description of the shooter in the cafe. The man was then let go.

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I knew nothing about this until my son, who lives in Seattle, emailed me, cryptically, saying
" I am fine, I was not near there".
smart ass kid....

I know the areas in question well, tho.
WTF is going on with all this gunplay in Seattle ( and Tacoma, and Ft. Lewis/McChord, and....)

adding Seattle Times link:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018316552_roosevelt31m.html

[Suich]

1. 4 have died; three from the restaurant and one from the downtown car-jacking. n/t

[onehandle]

2. All guns start out legal. nt

[baldguy]

3. But too many people work endlessly to ensure criminals can get guns easily.

[slackmaster]

4. All babies are born innocent

[awoke_in_2003]

11. ah, but many in this country...

believe you are born with the stain of original sin

(not me, by the way)

[Melissa G]

5. Daughter just called to say she was safe

but it happened just down the street from her. Scary.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I understand your feelings..

have a son and a brother there, brother works at U of W.( my Alma Mater)

[Melissa G]

9. Your brother and my daughter are just blocks away from all this drama.

I have other friends close by. I hope everyone there stays safe.

[calimary]

10. Ours just texted the same thing. She was off with her friends at Sasquatch all weekend.

It was some distance from her, thank goodness. She said no one she knows in and around Seattle was in any danger.

What else can you do but worry, though? We're here. She's up there, on her own, living her life. Not much more we can do than just worry.

[Melissa G]

12. Sounds over now at least

I worry half a continent away. I do protection prayers- letting go is all I can do anyway.

[calimary]

14. Don't I know it. It's all you can do, once they're grown and out on their own.

Our daughter will be 23 this year. Graduated college last May. She's moving forward under her own power now.

[pfitz59]

6. Seattle's gone gun-crazy this week

I think its the sunny weather...

[AtheistCrusader]

8. Sunny my ass.

Overcast in Sammamish.

[uppityperson]

13. The guy was mentally ill and those killed were friends of my kid. Fuck. This was all the same guy.

fuck