81
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mukilteo police monitor the access point to the crime scene from a block away, after a shooting in Mukilteo, Wash., Saturday July 30, 2016. A suspect was apprehended three counties away, said Officer Myron Travis of the Mukilteo Police Department.
SEATTLE >> A gunman attacked a gathering of young adults at a suburban Seattle home early Saturday, killing two people at a fire pit before firing more shots from the roof, the grandmother of one of the witnesses said.
Three people were killed and another injured at the Mukilteo property. State troopers pulled over and arrested the fleeing 19-year-old suspect on an interstate three counties away, authorities said.
“She was hiding in the closet and called me from the closet while it was going on,” Susan Gemmer said of her 18-year-old granddaughter, Alexis. “We were texting back and forth, telling her to stay quiet, stay calm, we’re on our way. She kept saying, ‘They’re dead, they’re dead, I saw them, I was right there and I saw them.’ “
Gemmer said that according to her granddaughter, the gunman arrived with a rifle at the party of about 15 to 20 friends from Kamiak High School — mostly recent graduates aged 18 to 20. The gunman walked through the house to the fire pit out back, where he shot two of the victims. Those present knew the gunman, she said, and he and one of the victims had broken up last week.
The shooter then made his way onto the roof, where some of the friends were hanging out, Gemmer said.
The young man who lived at the home tried to lead Alexis Gemmer to safety by escaping out the garage. As they rolled under the garage door and the boy bolted across the street, the gunman began shooting at him from the roof, her granddaughter told Gemmer.
“She panicked and ran back in the house and hid in the closet until police arrived,” Gemmer said. The young man made it across the street.
Authorities did not immediately release information about or the identities of the suspect or the victims.
“Our community has suffered a great loss tonight,” Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer Gregerson said. “There were many young people who saw and heard things that no one should ever experience.”
The shooting happened in the upscale Chennault neighborhood of Mukilteo, a waterfront town of about 20,000 people, 25 miles north of Seattle.
Washington State Patrol Trooper Will Finn said the male suspect was pulled over at around 2 a.m. heading south on Interstate 5 near Chehalis, about 113 miles away. Finn declined to release information about his identity, but he said troopers returned him and the vehicle he was driving to the custody of Mukilteo police.
Authorities said they planned to release more information Saturday afternoon.
Please stop blaming everything on ISIS. Very few of the shooting incidents reported in the past year have anything to do with ISIS. We need far fewer guns on the street and far fewer mentally ill or just vicious people with guns. Trump is hoping for terrorist attacks so look for him to exaggerate the problem. Trump is perhaps more dangerous than anything as he will undermine our democracy and lead into more unneeded wars. Scary man.
Look for the vengeful BF described in this account to claim he got “radicalized” by ISIS cartoons and Facebook entries.
What is scary is the conclusions that allie is quick to jump to. No where in this article is a possible link to ISIS or even terrorism mentioned. The article states that the gunman and one of the victims had broken up last week. Perhaps this relationship break up could have precipitated the murders. allie however pulls things from out of the blue which is typical of his/her analytical skills.
Crickets. It’s funny how in just about a third of these kinds of reports, there are always a few people yelling racial insults, calls for deportation and the like.