3 Dead, 5 Injured In Unrelated Seattle Shootings: SPD

SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department is investigating four separate shootings after three people were killed and five injured over the course of three hours Sunday morning. In a news release, police said it appeared the four shootings were unrelated. Officials announced two arrests in one of the shootings late Sunday afternoon.

The first 911 call came in shortly before 2 a.m. from an employee at a Belltown bar on the 2200 block of 1st Avenue, police said. The caller reported a fight had spilled out into the street and parking lot. As officers arrived to break up the fight, they heard shots fired nearby and found a man with gunshot wounds. Seattle Fire medics attempted to treat his injuries, but he was soon declared dead, police said.

Less than an hour later, multiple 911 calls reported gunfire near Occidental Square. Officers reported multiple shooting scenes in the area and found two men with gunshot wounds. One man died at the scene, and medics rushed the other to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. Officers learned three other victims were taken to hospitals in personal vehicles before they arrived, including one man who later died at Harborview.

Just before 3:30 a.m., a woman walked into a Bellevue hospital with a gunshot wound to the stomach and said she had been shot in Seattle, near 12th Avenue South and South Main Street, in the Chinatown-International District, police said. Investigators determined that the shooting happened at 1:40 a.m.

911 callers reported the fourth shooting of the morning around 4:40 a.m., telling dispatchers they heard gunfire in the area of Cal Anderson Park. A few minutes later, police said a man with a gunshot wound arrived at Harborview in a rideshare vehicle. He told investigators someone shot him at the park after a basketball game.

Late Sunday afternoon, Seattle police said two suspects were arrested in the Belltown shooting, including one man booked on suspicion of homicide and another on suspicion of discharging a weapon.

Anyone with information on any of the four shootings is encouraged to call SPD's violent crimes tip line at 206-233-5000.