Seattle shootings: 5 killed, 9 injured in violent weekend
By Q13 News Staff
City leaders say Seattle is experiencing the highest number of shootings in recent history.
SEATTLE - Five people were killed and nine injured in a violent weekend with multiple shootings in Seattle, Mayor Jenny Durkan said on Monday.
The early morning shootings happened in Belltown,Pioneer Square, Capitol Hill and the Chinatown-International District. A fourth person was killed in a shooting Sunday night in Lake City.
The first shooting occurred around 1:40 a.m. At that time, a woman was shot in the stomach near 12th Avenue S and South Main Street in Seattle. At 3:29 a.m., she arrived at a Bellevue hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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The passenger on the Alaska Airlines flight repeatedly dialed 911 before it even left the gate in Seattle. He claimed the plane was being hijacked. Then he called the FBI to say there was a bomb.
Police stormed the plane and evacuated everyone before discovering it was a hoax. The false report delayed the Jan. 23 flight for hours, forced the rescreening of baggage and may have broken a federal law that could land the passenger in prison for five years.
But, so far, no charges have been filed.
That may be because misconduct on airliners which in the past year includes everything from passengers who refuse to wear face masks to others who assault flight attendants is governed by a patchwork of federal, state and local agencies that aren’t always well equipped to prosecute such cases.