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Yet another shooting here in Seattle.
On May 4, Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole issued a statement about five shooting incidents over a 24-hour period that left one person dead and four others injured. Those shootings included a sorority girl going back to her house just north of the UW campus, a 16-year-old girl killed <broken link removed> and an elderly couple delivering newspapers who got caught in the crossfire as completely innocent bystanders.
Since O'Toole's statement, a man pulled a gun on two people on Rainier Avenue, a 27-year-old was <broken link removed> outside a nightclub in Belltown, the gang unit is looking into a man who was shot in the leg in First Hill and a 46-year-old was hit in the arm and leg. Another man was <broken link removed> and killed early Sunday in White Center.
The violence around Seattle is pretty incredible.
In fact, we're on a record pace this year in terms of gunshot wounds and murders. This is ironic. Wasn't it just a couple years ago when Mayor Ed Murray and the Seattle City Council started putting up their Gun Free Zone signs in local businesses and imposing the firearms and ammunition tax that they said would help reduce gun violence?
Dori: Spate of shootings proves gun taxes are toothless
