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United States News Title: Gunman kills four in separate Seattle shootings SEATTLE – The suspect in the fatal shooting of three people and wounding of two others at the Racer Cafe on Roosevelt Ave. was being treated Wednesday evening at Harborivew Medical Center for a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Earlier reports said the man had died. Our news partner, The Seattle Times, identifies the suspect as Ian Stawicki. His brother reportedly says that Stawicki suffers from mental illness Police believe the man is also reponsible for a separate fatal shooting at 8th and Seneca. "We feel very confident that we have the suspect in both incidents," Seattle Police Asst. Chief Nick Metz said. As a precaution, however, Seattle police said residents should expect an increased police presence while they investigate. The man was being sought for a shooting that happened about 11 a.m. at Café Racer in the 5800 block of Roosevelt Way NE, just north of the University District. Police say two male victims were killed at the scene. Two more men and a woman were taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. The woman died at the hospital. The two men are in critical condition at Harborview. "We've got a road ahead for them. They are very sick they have life threatening conditions, it is not going to be an easy road for them, it's minute by minute, hour by hour, and that's where we are at right now," said hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg. The shooter was seen running away from the scene northbound, armed with a gun. Seattle police released these surveillance images. Roosevelt High School, Eckstein Middle School and Green Lake Elementary School were placed in either modified or full lockdown, but school was dismissed on time. Greenlake Community Center and Ravenna/Eckstein Community Center were also temporarily in lockdown. The public was advised to stay out of the area. Residents were told to stay inside and lock their doors and windows. Police continue to search homes in the area. Evan Hill, who lives above the building were the cafe shooting happened, said the cafe was an artists' collective and performance space. "It's the strangest place to think of a shooting," Hill said. One regular at the coffee shop said the man they knew as Ian was told he wasn't welcome in there any more. "He'd be totally normal and educated and all of a sudden he would just crack - and say insane crazy stuff at a certain point they kicked him out and then this morning they said you are 86'd, you can't be here would you like a coffee to go. He was nice - courteous, walked to the door and turned and then started shooting," said Christopher Assaf. Police said it appears that about 30 minutes after the shooting at the cafe, the suspect in the cafe shooting fled to First Hill, where he fatally shot a woman in a parking lot, then stole her SUV. "I heard a gunshot, I looked in the vincinity. The woman was already down," said Thom Merklin, a chauffer across the street who rushed to the woman's aid. He found her lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds in her back. Officers arrived quickly and began CPR on the victim until medics arrived and transported her to Harborview Medical Center. She was later pronounced dead. Police say the suspect then drove the SUV to West Seattle. Within a half hour, police found the black Mercedes SUV, abandoned and with a handgun on the passenger seat, in West Seattle in the 4100 block of Delridge Way SW. Police set up a containment area and scoured the Delridge neighborhood for hours for the suspect. Police spent the afternoon shutting down streets and searching various West Seattle locations for a suspect in the downtown shootings. Just after 4 p.m., a plainclothes officer spotted the suspect near 36th Avenue and SW Morgan Street, and called for back-up. As uniformed officers approached the suspect, he knelt down to the ground, and shot himself. Medics rushed the man to Harborview for treatment. Deadly week This is just the latest in a very deadly week - as gun violence escalates in Seattle. It began last Thursday with the shooting death of an innocent father. Someone fired a shot and it struck Justin Ferrari as he drove his family in the Central District. The killer has not been found. On Saturday evening a shooting at the Folklife Festival left another innocent man with a gunshot wound. In the early hours of Sunday police responded to four drive-by shootings in South Seattle where more than 60 shots were fired. No was seriously hurt or killed. And later that same morning in north Seattle, a robber with a gun broke into a home with a marijuana grow operation. He shot and killed a man inside At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Mike McGinn said it’s a priority to identify the strategies that are needed to employ to try to bring an end to the wave of gun violence that the city is seeing. "It's going to take our political leaders coming together to give our police officers the support and the tools they need to do their job, and I'm committed to doing that," said McGinn. "And we will be working with our police to give them the tools they need to focus on violent offenders with access to guns." "It's also going to take a focus on the laws that make it too easy for people to acquire guns and it's also going to take full partnership with the community to end the culture of violence where young men believe it's OK to attempt to resolve disputes through violence, including guns." Story compiled by KING 5's Travis Pittman, Susan Wyatt and Liza Javier, including information from Associated Press
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"He'd be totally normal and educated and all of a sudden he would just crack - and say insane crazy stuff at a certain point they kicked him out and then this morning they said you are 86'd, you can't be here would you like a coffee to go. He was nice - courteous, walked to the door and turned and then started shooting," said Christopher Assaf. Should've called 911 !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
It would have taken the cops at least an hour to get there, you know that..... Especially if it was coffee and doughnut time!!! Open carry would solve a lot of these issues before they actually became an incident, only one would need to be buried (with numerous bullet holes) instead of numerous innocent victims!!!
Leftardism/Liberalism: The chickenschitt way to deal with life’s problems by creating solutions to problems that don’t exist, thereby creating a problem where none existed before and then having to find a solution to that one…
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