Rallying business owners, neighbors demand city leaders do more to remove crime
SEATTLE - -After Wednesday’s deadly shooting rampage, law enforcement has now saturated the city core.Dozens rallied at Westlake Park Friday to demand city leaders make permanent changes to crack down on crime.Third Avenue now looks like a police precinct.
9-year-old boy released from hospital after downtown Seattle shooting
SEATTLE -- A boy who was injured in the downtown Seattle shooting on Wednesday has been released from the hospital.Nine-year-old Judah was on a field trip with family and friends from Port Orchard when he was shot in the leg.
3rd and Pine: Downtown Seattle intersection has dark history of violence
SEATTLE – Third Avenue and Pine Street: It’s the core of Seattle but known to so many as a crossroads for crime.Joey Rodolfo owns a clothing store called Buki just down the street from Wednesday's deadly shooting, which happened in the middle of rush hour and killed one person and injured seven others, including a 9-year-old boy.“There was a stabbing that happened here a couple months ago right down the street,” he said. “We see guys with hypodermic needles, waving them, wanting to stab people with them.”Rodolfo is one of many frustrated business owners asking, what is happening to the area?People live here, work here and roughly 180,000 people travel through Third and Pine each weekday - 50,000 of them catching the bus right on Third.“You saw this with your own eyes as you were here interviewing a guy trying to break into cars here who was high on meth,” business owner Mauro Golmarvi said. “This is what we deal with and this is what our employees have to deal with every day we are down here.”Golmarvi owns Asiago Restaurant.“It killed our business,” he said. “I mean cancellation last night was 60 people, and it’s been horrible.
Politicians push for more gun control after Seattle shooting
SEATTLE -- Politicians are pushing for more gun control after Wednesday night's deadly shooting downtown where bullets hit eight people, killing one woman in the crossfire.However, gun rights activists were quick to point out that existing gun laws didn't stop the suspects from having guns in the first place.Democrats at all levels of politics in the state were quick to make calls to end senseless gun violence.From the city:
Victims in downtown Seattle shooting range in age from 9 to 55
SEATTLE -- Three of the seven people who were taken to Harborview Medical Center after a shooting in downtown Seattle Wednesday night - including a 9-year-old boy and a 55-year-old woman in critical condition - remained hospitalized Thursday morning.
Blood bank in need of donations following downtown Seattle shooting
SEATTLE -- Bloodworks Northwest is looking for type O donors to step up and give blood following Wednesday's shooting in downtown Seattle.The nonprofit blood bank says type O is the blood type that's most often needed after emergencies.
1 dead, 7 injured in downtown Seattle shooting; suspects still at large
The scene is less than half a mile from an officer-involved shooting that happened just hours before, and officers rushed from that scene after receiving calls of a "mass casualty incident."