Law enforcement officials found five people killed in a shooting inside a home southeast of Seattle on Monday morning and took a teenager into custody, police said. Multiple people called 911 around 5 am to report a shooting in Fall City, Washington, King County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Mike Mellis said at a media briefing Monday afternoon. Arriving deputies immediately took one teen into custody while another teenager who had been hurt was taken to a Seattle hospital, Mellis said. Both teens live at the house, Mellis said. Deputies entering the home found the bodies of five people, he said. Two were adults and three were described by Mellis as young teenagers. No names have yet been released. Once bodies were discovered, clearly we understand that this is a hugely significant crime scene, he said. The shooting appears to involve members of a family, Mellis said, but added that they didn't yet know how they were related. He also said there was no ongoing threat to the ...
A man was killed and five others including two children were injured in a barrage of gunfire on Wednesday in the nation's capital. The shooting happened just after 6 p.m. in the Carver Langston neighbourhood of Washington, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said. Investigators believe the suspects exited a vehicle and then began shooting into a crowd of people on the street. Multiple people were shot. One of the victims, an adult man, was killed. Two men, a woman and a 9-year-old were taken by ambulance to local hospitals. A 12-year-old later arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound and is also believed to be a victim in the shooting, Smith said. The shooting comes as the District of Columbia is struggling with a sharp increase in violent crime, which went up 39 per cent in 2023. The increase was largely fuelled by a 35 per cent rise in homicides and growth in carjackings, which nearly doubled. Smith has pushed lawmakers to pass legislation that would strengthen
A 19-year-old man shot four people Thursday in central Washington state, killing three of them, and then killed himself, police said. Toppenish Police Chief John Clary said in a statement that at about 5 am the man shot and killed a 13-year-old boy, an 18-year-old woman and a 21-year-old woman at a house in Toppenish. The man also shot a 21-year-old man who was taken to a hospital in critical condition, Clary said. The 19-year-old man who shot them then killed himself, according to the police chief. Police said there were no outstanding suspects and there was no ongoing threat to the community. The motive behind this heinous act remains unknown at this time, Clary's statement said. The Toppenish Police Department is fully committed to conducting a thorough investigation in collaboration with our regional law enforcement partners to determine the circumstances surrounding this tragic event. Toppenish has a population of about 8,600 people and is located within the Yakama Indian ...
A shooting on a street in the nation's capital left three people dead and two others hospitalised Saturday night, police said. Officers responded to the sounds of gunshots around 8 p.m. in the 1600 block of Good Hope Road Southeast and found five victims who had been shot. Two men and a woman were pronounced dead at the scene and two men were transported to area hospitals, Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department Acting Chief Pamela Smith said during a news conference at the scene. The conditions of the hospitalised victims were not immediately known. This kind of gun violence is not acceptable in the District of Columbia. This is not a war zone. We want our residents to feel safe, Smith said. Smith asked for help from the public in collecting information about what she called a disturbing fatal shooting. We realise that there may be others who may have been injured tonight. We are asking you to come forward, Smith said, adding that the community needs to be involved in .
A suspect has been taken into custody after the Grant County Sheriff's Office issued an 'active shooter' alert at a campground near the Gorge Amphitheatre. There were several victims
Authorities have arrested two of the three suspects they were searching for after two people were found dead and a police officer was shot on a tribal reservation in north-eastern Washington. The Colville Tribal Police Department said it responded to a report of a shooting on Thursday in Keller, west of Spokane. Officers found two people dead, and an officer who came across a vehicle described as having left the scene was shot in the arm. He was doing well after being transported for medical care, the department said in a news release. Police identified two of the suspects as Curry Pinkham and Zachary Holt. The third suspect, another man, had not been identified. It was not immediately clear which of the three suspects had been arrested. Tribal police searched for them overnight with help from 10 other agencies, including the FBI, Border Patrol, Washington State Patrol and police and sheriff's deputies. The department said on Facebook Friday that two suspects had been ...
A 15-year-old teenager was apprehended for allegedly shooting and injuring two fellow students in Washington, according to DC police
Spokane County Sheriff said suspect brought multiple weapons to the campus and the shooting took place in a second-floor hallway
Police have not identified any suspects or detailed a motive