{"id":962719,"date":"2026-07-27T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/962719\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:07:17","slug":"police-search-for-second-suspect-after-seattle-festival-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/962719\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for second suspect after Seattle festival shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Police searched for a second suspect Monday after gunfire erupted at a crowded food festival<\/a> beneath Seattle\u2019s Space Needle, leaving three people dead and four others wounded, including a toddler. Another suspect was arrested earlier. <\/p>\n

Investigators believe the two suspects were shooting at each other Sunday and, although one remained on the loose, Seattle Assistant Police Chief Tyrone Davis told a news conference Sunday night that there was no ongoing threat to the public.<\/p>\n

Police did not have a description of the outstanding suspect, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still trying to figure this out,\u201d Davis said. Police did not immediately respond to phone and email messages early Monday.<\/p>\n

Two people died at the scene and a third died at a hospital. They were described as two men, ages 19 and 44, and a 56-year-old woman.<\/p>\n

The four wounded, including a 2-year-old boy, were hospitalized. The boy, who was in satisfactory condition Monday, was the only one still in a hospital, a hospital spokesperson said. Two men, ages 23 and 27, and a woman, age 39, were discharged.<\/p>\n

Davis couldn\u2019t say if any of the victims were involved in the confrontation.<\/p>\n

The gunfire erupted around 6 p.m. Sunday<\/a> in the waning hours of the Bite of Seattle, an annual three-day festival that draws hundreds of food and retail vendors and performers.<\/p>\n

Dozens of officers were providing security at the event and some saw one of the suspects firing, Davis said. One suspect surrendered at the scene, but the other fled.<\/p>\n

A large number of police and emergency crews responded and began evacuating the area around the sprawling Seattle Center campus.<\/p>\n

Faith Adia Hunter said she and her friends had just gotten food from a crepe vendor when gunfire broke out. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were about to start eating, then heard someone yell something, then we saw people start to run,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cSo we took off running, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were right next to him when it started, so we took off running,\u201d Hunter added.<\/p>\n

Hunter said that in the scramble to find safety, she and others ran into the nearby Seattle Children\u2019s Museum.<\/p>\n

In the chaos, many vendors bolted toward the exits, abandoning their food stands. Hours later, some milled outside the police tape, wondering when they would be allowed to collect their tents, food and cooking gear.<\/p>\n

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Roberto Ramirez, a vendor at the event, said he heard what sounded like firecrackers before people began yelling \u201cshooter\u201d and frantically running.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuddenly everything was empty,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople were freaked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the initial panic, new guests continued to arrive unaware of what had happened and were told by police to leave, he said.<\/p>\n

Estan Wakonabo said he and his girlfriend were waiting in line for a photo booth when he was shoved from behind and turned to see a rush of people fleeing. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were hiding, were pushing, people were falling on the ground, baby strollers were falling,\u201d Wakonabo said, adding that was when he heard gunshots.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I heard a \u2018pop, pop, pop,\u2019 that\u2019s when I knew it was a shooter,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

After he escorted his girlfriend to safety, he returned to the scene to take photos and saw multiple victims on the ground, Wakonabo said. <\/p>\n

The festival started in 1982 and draws 350,000 attendees, according to its website.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press journalists Manuel Valdes and Lindsey Wasson in Seattle, Annika Wolters in Bangkok and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Police searched for a second suspect Monday after gunfire erupted at a crowded food festival…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":962720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3881,4219,22016,386745,57,4222,50,386746,2086,3677,387059,61,67,132,68,2057,2058],"class_list":["post-962719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-ap-top-news","tag-crime","tag-fairs-and-festivals","tag-faith-adia-hunter","tag-general-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-news","tag-roberto-ramirez","tag-seattle","tag-shootings","tag-tyrone-davis","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wa-state-wire","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116992805961664214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}