AP A woman is comforted outside of Walmart in Port Orchard, Wash. where a Washington state sheriff said
16 mins ago
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. A shootout in front of a Walmart in Washington state left two people dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded Sunday afternoon, a sheriff's spokesman said.
One of the dead was a man who shot at deputies, said Scott Wilson of the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. The other victim was a young woman who died after she was taken to a Tacoma hospital, he said.
Sheriff's officials said the deputies' wounds weren't expected to be life threatening.
Wilson said details were sketchy, but the sheriff's office received a call about a suspicious person at the store in Port Orchard. He said the man ran and started shooting when three deputies tried to talk to him.
The deputies, including the two who were wounded, returned fire, and the man died of his wounds in the parking lot, Wilson said.
Witness Ray Bourge told KOMO-TV that he saw a man running through the parking lot toward nearby woods, firing his gun back toward the store.
Uke would have been in the $tarbucks in the Wal*Mart on his Windoze laptop using Micro$oft Office to write a phan letter to InBevver-Busch.
Uke said
12:32 AM, 01/24/11
Just heard about this leavin' work... My car's radio picks up ONE station. News. All the time!
Uke has a job remember? Uke hasn't joined Tu and Cy yet. Soon however, the rest of youse will pay towards Tu, Cy, and Uke's R&R.
The Krink said
2:29 AM, 01/24/11
Don't forget about my contributions. It's nice to know now some
of the names which will recieve my dollars.
Uke said
6:05 PM, 01/25/11
Thus far Krink holds the record for ripping off the RRB, and our dollars tu. Uke is helping fund Tu, Cy, mntman, Krink...and others.
Uke promises ta join the elite club soon. January 2012 looms large...
Uke said
5:27 PM, 05/30/12
Apparently cops nailed this perp near where he abandoned the hijacked SUV, and reports say he shot himself... Either way he's dead.
Whether by cops bullets, or his own gun...good! Security tapes from the cafe near the UW identified the shooter as the car-jacker...
Maybe the car ran outa gas...so he abandoned it in West Seattle where they surrounded him.
Suspected gunman dies in hospital after 5 fatally shot in Seattle
By KOMO StaffPublished: May 30, 2012 at 4:19 PM PDTLast Updated: May 30, 2012 at 9:39 PM PDT
SEATTLE -- The man suspected in two fatal shootings in Seattle on Wednesday has died.
Ian L. Stawicki, 40, of Ellensburg died on Wednesday evening, according to Harborview Medical Center spokesperson Susan Gregg.
A fourth victim in the shooting at Cafe Racer also succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday evening, Gregg said.
Police believe the man is responsible for a fatal shooting at a University District cafe, as well as a separate shooting near Town Hall that claimed the life of a woman.
"Unfortunately, these are all connected. Fortunately, we have the person in custody," said Pugel, adding evidence found at both scenes link the incidents.
A man opened fire at Cafe Racer at 5828 Roosevelt Way NE at approximately 11 a.m. Two men were pronounced dead at the scene, and two additional victims - a man and a woman - later died at Harborview Medical Center. A fifth victim remained in critical condition.
A witness told KOMO News that moments after shots rang out, "a woman ran down the streets and yelled to get back inside; (she said) there was a man with a gun."
It was not known what prompted the shooting, and no information about the victims has been released.
About a half hour later, a woman was fatally shot near Town Hall at Eighth and Seneca. A witness told police the woman was in an argument with a man who pulled out a gun and shot the woman in the head.
"I see this guy leaning down over this woman kicking her, then he shot her in the face," one witness said.
The woman was rushed to Harborview Medical Center where she was died. The gunman was seen driving away in a black SUV.
The car was recovered about a half hour later in the 4100 block of Delridge Way in West Seattle, and officers spotted a gun inside the car.
A plainclothes officer spotted the suspected gunman in West Seattle on Wednesday afternoon. When uniformed officers approached the man near 37th and Raymond, he knelt on the ground and turned the gun on himself, said police.
The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center where he later died.
Wednesday's shootings were the latest incidents in a string of violence that has plagued the Seattle and led some city leaders to openly question whether police are doing enough.
Twenty people have been killed in Seattle so far this year with only seven arrests made, not counting two cases that were cleared.
Last week a man was fatally shot by a stray bullet while he and his family drove down a street in the city's Central District. Justin Ferrari, 43, a software developer, was killed when a stranger started shooting Thursday afternoon. Police said the gunman's intended target was another person involved in a dispute with the gunman.
Ferrari's death was the second random killing in Seattle in about a month. In late April, a 21-year-old woman who recently moved to Seattle from Albuquerque, N.M., to pursue her dream of becoming a chef died of injuries suffered in an apparently random drive-by shooting near downtown. No arrests have been made in either incident.
Last year, the city saw 20 homicide cases. In 2010, there were 19 cases.
Uke said
8:28 AM, 05/31/12
Listening ta the radio this morn...this episode has made national news already. Local NPR affiliate fills in the gaps concerning the shooter, Ian Stewicki... His brother said he could see this coming. Family members contacted for the story said Stewicki suffered from 'mental illness.'
Okay...so if he wanted ta commit suicide, why didn't he just jump off the Aurora Bridge? Oh no...too scary. Kill a few innocent folks, then be hunted by cops, then go out in a blaze of glory, and commit suicide by cop!
Yeah, the mental illness crap again. Ya wanna kill yourself? Just do it. Lotsa ways to achieve your ends. Just don't involve others.
-- Edited by Uke on Thursday 31st of May 2012 10:16:49 AM
The Krink said
9:26 AM, 05/31/12
I watched the whole thing unfold on the tube. The coverage was uninterrupted by commercials. Very much like the idiot that shot at sheriffs that ended in a pursuit on I-5 in Everett and shutdown the freeway in rush-hour for 4 hours and cops were everywhere in South Everett.
Another Manchurian candidate? Astrologically lots going this day. Venus is retrograde so you know it can be ugly. Also exact is a Mercury square Mars aspect. Nortorius for quarrels and temper outbursts. Lots of what Mercury square Mars means played out today. The whole city was freaked out. Police racing everywhere to find the gunman. People not feeling to safe. Lot's of disruption to the whole day and horrible traffic whenever the cops converged somewhere. Certainly the celestial influences were perfect for this day. The moon aspects for the day added fodder with a moon oppose uranus followed by moon square pluto. Also thought it odd when Seattle mayors first chance to respond to this whole thing was to start some spiel about gub control and shit. Then the next guy gets up the mike and "spreads the same butter". Finally anybody that tuned into this conference was wanting to know what was going on with the manhunt and police officer gave us what we waited about 10 minutes for. Lots of gunfire and deaths in Seattle area the last week. The celestial aspects going...it's not too far out for a bunch of events to happen in a large city clustered around several aspects that would send a "spike" or a "Danger Will Robinson" signal to the locals. There is a chance this whole thing was was an "orchestrated/timed" event. Turn in your gubs is next and I can see this as "promo". A lot of things are going on in the minds of those that got involved in this mess in Seattle today.
Uke said
10:16 AM, 05/31/12
Originally published Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 6:06 AM
Shootings leave 6 dead in already jittery Seattle
A city already anxious about a recent spate of shootings was rattled further when a man walked into an arts cafe near a Seattle university and opened fire, fatally wounding four people. Police say he later killed a woman during a carjacking before shooting himself.
A city already anxious about a recent spate of shootings was rattled further when a man walked into an arts cafe near a Seattle university and opened fire, fatally wounding four people. Police say he later killed a woman during a carjacking before shooting himself.
As officers closed in during a widespread manhunt on Wednesday, the suspect put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He died at a hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The five victims brought the number of homicides in Seattle so far this year to 21, matching the total for all of last year, and left city leaders wondering what could be done to stop the bloodshed.
"Two tragic shootings today ... have shaken this city," Mayor Mike McGinn said at a news conference. "It follows on the heels of multiple, tragic episodes of gun violence that have occurred throughout the city."
In the last month, there had already been two random killings. A man died last week when he was hit by a stray bullet as he drove, and a woman was killed in a drive by shooting in late April. No arrests have been made.
Police did not publicly name the suspect in the shootings, but the Seattle Times identified him as Ian Lee Stawicki, 40, of Seattle, citing unidentified law enforcement sources.
Andrew Stawicki, 29, of Ellensburg, told the Times he recognized a photo shown on TV newscasts of the alleged gunman as his brother Ian. Andrew Stawicki said Ian Stawicki was mentally ill.
"It's no surprise to me this happened," he told the newspaper. "We could see this coming. Nothing good is going to come with that much anger inside of you."
A phone number for Andrew Stawicki rang busy when The Associated Press tried to reach him for comment.
Gunfire erupted about 11 a.m. at Cafe Racer, a restaurant and music venue north of the University of Washington.
Police quickly released two photos from inside the cafe, apparently taken from a security camera. One showed a man walking into the establishment, with a woman nearby reading a book and people chatting at the nearby cafe bar. Another photo about a minute later showed stools overturned, and the man standing and holding what appeared to be a handgun.
Two men died at the cafe, and a third man and a woman from the cafe died at a hospital.
Police said it appeared the gunman fled to the First Hill neighborhood near downtown, where he fatally shot a woman in a parking lot and stole her SUV.
He then drove the SUV to West Seattle and ditched it, leaving a gun in the car. After officers found the vehicle, they flooded that area with uniformed and plainclothes officers.
A detective spotted the suspect later and called for backup and a SWAT team, Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said. As those officers arrived, the man shot himself, he said.
A King County medical examiner's spokeswoman said her office might be able to release the dead victims' identifications Thursday.
One man wounded in the cafe shooting was reported in critical but stable condition at Harborview Medical Center following surgery. Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg confirmed his name as Leonard Meuse. Meuse's father, Raymond Meuse, told the Times his son was shot in the jaw and armpit but was expected to survive.
Evan Hill, who lives above the building where the shooting happened, said the cafe was an artists' collective and performance space.
"It's the strangest place to think of a shooting," said Hill, who heard four to five shots. He said he ran to his balcony and called 911, but didn't see a suspect.
On a corner across from the cafe, friends of the victims gathered by the ivy-covered wall of an apartment building. Some collapsed in grief. The cafe's owner hugged them and commiserated.
Units of police officers marched by with rifles and shotguns, knocking on doors and checking driveways and yards in the neighborhood of single-family, bungalow-style homes, restaurants and businesses.
During the manhunt, Roosevelt High School, Eckstein Middle School and Greenlake Elementary were locked down, according to the school district.
In other recent violence to hit Seattle, a bystander was wounded near the Space Needle Saturday when he was struck by a bullet that police say was fired by a gang member involved in a dispute with another man. Later that night, about 60 shots were fired in drive-by shootings at four houses. No one was hit.
Besides a plan to increase the number of officers on patrol in high-crime areas, police are urging people with information about shootings to come forward. They also said Seattleites could expect an increased police presence in the near future.
City councilman Bruce Harrell said leaders needed to consider everything - from changing laws to addressing the culture of violence.
"If we are to be honest, there's no easy fix," he said.
-- Edited by Uke on Thursday 31st of May 2012 10:17:44 AM
Walmart shooting leaves 2 dead, 2 deputies hurt
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. A shootout in front of a Walmart in Washington state left two people dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded Sunday afternoon, a sheriff's spokesman said.
One of the dead was a man who shot at deputies, said Scott Wilson of the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. The other victim was a young woman who died after she was taken to a Tacoma hospital, he said.
Sheriff's officials said the deputies' wounds weren't expected to be life threatening.
Wilson said details were sketchy, but the sheriff's office received a call about a suspicious person at the store in Port Orchard. He said the man ran and started shooting when three deputies tried to talk to him.
The deputies, including the two who were wounded, returned fire, and the man died of his wounds in the parking lot, Wilson said.
Witness Ray Bourge told KOMO-TV that he saw a man running through the parking lot toward nearby woods, firing his gun back toward the store.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110124/ap_on_re_us/us_wal_mart_shooting
Apparently cops nailed this perp near where he abandoned the hijacked SUV, and reports say he shot himself... Either way he's dead.
Whether by cops bullets, or his own gun...good! Security tapes from the cafe near the UW identified the shooter as the car-jacker...
Maybe the car ran outa gas...so he abandoned it in West Seattle where they surrounded him.
This is the reality in Seattle now.
http://www.kplu.org/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2018320102_edit31shootings.html
-- Edited by Uke on Wednesday 30th of May 2012 05:55:02 PM
Two dead in Seattle shooting, gunman at large
AFP 7 mins ago
Two people were killed and three injured in a shooting in north Seattle on Wednesday, and a gunman was still at large,
police said.
Local King 5 television news reported that a gunman was seen running from the scene of the shooting at the Cafe Racer just
north of the Seattle University district.
Two men died at the scene, while two other men and a woman were taken to hospital in critical condition, the Seattle Police
Department said on its Twitter feed.
The gunman was described as a white male, in his 30s. "Suspect is a wht man, 6'1, very thin, curly light brn hair, wearing a
white & brn plaid shirt, a long sleeve shirt, and dark pants," it said.
Police helicopters were circling overhead, apparently searching for the gunman, according to an AFP correspondent near the
scene.
The suspect walked into the cafe and began shooting at about 11:00 am (1800 GMT), Deputy Seattle Police Chief Nick Metz
said, quoted by the Seattle Times.
The motive for the shooting was not yet clear, he said, according to the newspaper, which cited another police source as
saying it could be domestic violence.
Detectives were investigating a second shooting and car-jacking that killed one woman in downtown Seattle at about the
same time, police tweeted. It was not clear if the two incidents were linked.
© 2012 AFP
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Suspected gunman dies in hospital after 5 fatally shot in Seattle
Ian L. Stawicki, 40, of Ellensburg died on Wednesday evening, according to Harborview Medical Center spokesperson Susan Gregg.
A fourth victim in the shooting at Cafe Racer also succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday evening, Gregg said.
Police believe the man is responsible for a fatal shooting at a University District cafe, as well as a separate shooting near Town Hall that claimed the life of a woman.
"Unfortunately, these are all connected. Fortunately, we have the person in custody," said Pugel, adding evidence found at both scenes link the incidents.
A man opened fire at Cafe Racer at 5828 Roosevelt Way NE at approximately 11 a.m. Two men were pronounced dead at the scene, and two additional victims - a man and a woman - later died at Harborview Medical Center. A fifth victim remained in critical condition.
A witness told KOMO News that moments after shots rang out, "a woman ran down the streets and yelled to get back inside; (she said) there was a man with a gun."
It was not known what prompted the shooting, and no information about the victims has been released.
About a half hour later, a woman was fatally shot near Town Hall at Eighth and Seneca. A witness told police the woman was in an argument with a man who pulled out a gun and shot the woman in the head.
"I see this guy leaning down over this woman kicking her, then he shot her in the face," one witness said.
The woman was rushed to Harborview Medical Center where she was died. The gunman was seen driving away in a black SUV.
The car was recovered about a half hour later in the 4100 block of Delridge Way in West Seattle, and officers spotted a gun inside the car.
A plainclothes officer spotted the suspected gunman in West Seattle on Wednesday afternoon. When uniformed officers approached the man near 37th and Raymond, he knelt on the ground and turned the gun on himself, said police.
The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center where he later died.
Wednesday's shootings were the latest incidents in a string of violence that has plagued the Seattle and led some city leaders to openly question whether police are doing enough.
Twenty people have been killed in Seattle so far this year with only seven arrests made, not counting two cases that were cleared.
Last week a man was fatally shot by a stray bullet while he and his family drove down a street in the city's Central District. Justin Ferrari, 43, a software developer, was killed when a stranger started shooting Thursday afternoon. Police said the gunman's intended target was another person involved in a dispute with the gunman.
Ferrari's death was the second random killing in Seattle in about a month. In late April, a 21-year-old woman who recently moved to Seattle from Albuquerque, N.M., to pursue her dream of becoming a chef died of injuries suffered in an apparently random drive-by shooting near downtown. No arrests have been made in either incident.
Last year, the city saw 20 homicide cases. In 2010, there were 19 cases.
Listening ta the radio this morn...this episode has made national news already. Local NPR affiliate fills in the gaps concerning the shooter, Ian Stewicki... His brother said he could see this coming. Family members contacted for the story said Stewicki suffered from 'mental illness.'
Okay...so if he wanted ta commit suicide, why didn't he just jump off the Aurora Bridge? Oh no...too scary. Kill a few innocent folks, then be hunted by cops, then go out in a blaze of glory, and commit suicide by cop!
Yeah, the mental illness crap again. Ya wanna kill yourself? Just do it. Lotsa ways to achieve your ends. Just don't involve others.
-- Edited by Uke on Thursday 31st of May 2012 10:16:49 AM
uninterrupted by commercials. Very much like the idiot that shot
at sheriffs that ended in a pursuit on I-5 in Everett and shutdown
the freeway in rush-hour for 4 hours and cops were everywhere
in South Everett.
Another Manchurian candidate? Astrologically lots going this day.
Venus is retrograde so you know it can be ugly. Also exact is a
Mercury square Mars aspect. Nortorius for quarrels and temper
outbursts. Lots of what Mercury square Mars means played out
today. The whole city was freaked out. Police racing everywhere
to find the gunman. People not feeling to safe. Lot's of disruption
to the whole day and horrible traffic whenever the cops converged
somewhere. Certainly the celestial influences were perfect for this
day. The moon aspects for the day added fodder with a moon
oppose uranus followed by moon square pluto. Also thought it
odd when Seattle mayors first chance to respond to this whole thing
was to start some spiel about gub control and shit. Then the next
guy gets up the mike and "spreads the same butter". Finally anybody
that tuned into this conference was wanting to know what was going
on with the manhunt and police officer gave us what we waited
about 10 minutes for. Lots of gunfire and deaths in Seattle area the
last week. The celestial aspects going...it's not too far out for a
bunch of events to happen in a large city clustered around several
aspects that would send a "spike" or a "Danger Will Robinson"
signal to the locals. There is a chance this whole thing was
was an "orchestrated/timed" event. Turn in your gubs is next and
I can see this as "promo". A lot of things are going on in the minds
of those that got involved in this mess in Seattle today.
Originally published Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 6:06 AM
Shootings leave 6 dead in already jittery Seattle
A city already anxious about a recent spate of shootings was rattled further when a man walked into an arts cafe near a Seattle university and opened fire, fatally wounding four people. Police say he later killed a woman during a carjacking before shooting himself.
By GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press
A city already anxious about a recent spate of shootings was rattled further when a man walked into an arts cafe near a Seattle university and opened fire, fatally wounding four people. Police say he later killed a woman during a carjacking before shooting himself.
As officers closed in during a widespread manhunt on Wednesday, the suspect put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He died at a hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The five victims brought the number of homicides in Seattle so far this year to 21, matching the total for all of last year, and left city leaders wondering what could be done to stop the bloodshed.
"Two tragic shootings today ... have shaken this city," Mayor Mike McGinn said at a news conference. "It follows on the heels of multiple, tragic episodes of gun violence that have occurred throughout the city."
In the last month, there had already been two random killings. A man died last week when he was hit by a stray bullet as he drove, and a woman was killed in a drive by shooting in late April. No arrests have been made.
Police did not publicly name the suspect in the shootings, but the Seattle Times identified him as Ian Lee Stawicki, 40, of Seattle, citing unidentified law enforcement sources.
Andrew Stawicki, 29, of Ellensburg, told the Times he recognized a photo shown on TV newscasts of the alleged gunman as his brother Ian. Andrew Stawicki said Ian Stawicki was mentally ill.
"It's no surprise to me this happened," he told the newspaper. "We could see this coming. Nothing good is going to come with that much anger inside of you."
A phone number for Andrew Stawicki rang busy when The Associated Press tried to reach him for comment.
Gunfire erupted about 11 a.m. at Cafe Racer, a restaurant and music venue north of the University of Washington.
Police quickly released two photos from inside the cafe, apparently taken from a security camera. One showed a man walking into the establishment, with a woman nearby reading a book and people chatting at the nearby cafe bar. Another photo about a minute later showed stools overturned, and the man standing and holding what appeared to be a handgun.
Two men died at the cafe, and a third man and a woman from the cafe died at a hospital.
Police said it appeared the gunman fled to the First Hill neighborhood near downtown, where he fatally shot a woman in a parking lot and stole her SUV.
He then drove the SUV to West Seattle and ditched it, leaving a gun in the car. After officers found the vehicle, they flooded that area with uniformed and plainclothes officers.
A detective spotted the suspect later and called for backup and a SWAT team, Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said. As those officers arrived, the man shot himself, he said.
A King County medical examiner's spokeswoman said her office might be able to release the dead victims' identifications Thursday.
One man wounded in the cafe shooting was reported in critical but stable condition at Harborview Medical Center following surgery. Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg confirmed his name as Leonard Meuse. Meuse's father, Raymond Meuse, told the Times his son was shot in the jaw and armpit but was expected to survive.
Evan Hill, who lives above the building where the shooting happened, said the cafe was an artists' collective and performance space.
"It's the strangest place to think of a shooting," said Hill, who heard four to five shots. He said he ran to his balcony and called 911, but didn't see a suspect.
On a corner across from the cafe, friends of the victims gathered by the ivy-covered wall of an apartment building. Some collapsed in grief. The cafe's owner hugged them and commiserated.
Units of police officers marched by with rifles and shotguns, knocking on doors and checking driveways and yards in the neighborhood of single-family, bungalow-style homes, restaurants and businesses.
During the manhunt, Roosevelt High School, Eckstein Middle School and Greenlake Elementary were locked down, according to the school district.
In other recent violence to hit Seattle, a bystander was wounded near the Space Needle Saturday when he was struck by a bullet that police say was fired by a gang member involved in a dispute with another man. Later that night, about 60 shots were fired in drive-by shootings at four houses. No one was hit.
Besides a plan to increase the number of officers on patrol in high-crime areas, police are urging people with information about shootings to come forward. They also said Seattleites could expect an increased police presence in the near future.
City councilman Bruce Harrell said leaders needed to consider everything - from changing laws to addressing the culture of violence.
"If we are to be honest, there's no easy fix," he said.
-- Edited by Uke on Thursday 31st of May 2012 10:17:44 AM