Seattle police are responding to a shooting near 3rd Avenue and Pine Street with multiple victims.
Police said medics and detectives were responding to the scene. The shooting occurred shortly after 5 p.m.
Police are asking people to stay out of the area, and transit authorities closed and evacuated Westlake Station. The suspect fled the area and a search is on downtown. It is the third shooting downtown in less than two days. Earlier today, police shot and wounded a man in Belltown.
Tyler Parsons, 25, was working the register inside Victrola Coffee Roasters, at the corner of Pine and 3rd, when the shooting occurred. He said he heard no shots – they play music loud in the store, Parsons said – but customers started dropping to the ground.
People were running behind the register, taking cover. He hustled five or six customers inside a back storage area, along with another coworker.
He waited a couple of minutes before walking back out. Victrola is inside a larger retail and office space; Parsons went into the building lobby and saw two victims: one outside, lying in front of the building, visibly injured but alive and moving. The second victim was inside the lobby, up against the security desk, with an apparent gunshot wound to the leg. He muttered, “I think I got shot, I think I got shot,” Parsons said.
Police taped off the entire block, including the coffee shop.
“We’re just kind of hanging out here,” said a shaken-sounding Parsons, waiting until he and others still in the building can leave. The shooting was “just kind of terrifying. Terrifying it’s so close.”
“We’re just trying to figure out how to get out of here safe,” Parsons said.
Alex Bennett, a former nurse who lives above the McDonald’s at Third and Pine, was getting coffee at Victrola when she heard a volley of gunfire.
“Everyone in the coffee shop went down on the ground, hiding behind tables,” she said. “The security guard locked the door.”
Out on the street, she described chaos as people getting off buses were met by people running from the shooting scene. She also saw people who’d collapsed on the sidewalk, including one man in his 30s who had been shot in the leg outside the coffee shop.
Bennett helped a security guard who was putting pressure on the man’s wound.
“He was freaking out and kept saying, ‘I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die,’” she said.
Bennett reassured the man he’d be OK and kept him calm until police and medics arrived. At the man’s request, Bennett texted his wife to tell her what had happened. She said she got a message back, that the wife was in San Diego but was heading to the airport to get a flight back to Seattle.
Within a couple minutes of the gunfire, Bennett said she saw an officer running toward the shooting with an assault-style rifle. Another shooting victim made it into the coffee shop and was helped by people inside, she said.
Douglas Converse was standing right outside Westlake Station when he heard the gunfire. Converse, 60, of Magnolia, said he saw two people collapse near Pine Street and Third Avenue.
“I saw a couple of bodies go down,” Converse said. “I saw everybody go running, and I wanted to see if I could be any help.”
Samantha Cook, 40, of Edmonds, said she was refilling her Orca card in Westlake Station when she heard the shots.
“I was on the first set of escalators,” Cook said. “There were a lot of gun shots that started going off — maybe 10 or 11. It was just rapid fire.”
The scene was chaotic, she said.
“Everyone started flooding the (Light rail) tunnels,” she said.
By 6 p.m., Westlake Station had been evacuated and Sound Transit locked the entrances at the request of law enforcement, said spokesman Scott Thompson. The streets around 3rd and Pine, as well as around Third and Blanchard were also closed due to Tuesday’s shootings, at the height of a busy, wet commute.
Seattle Times staffers Mike Carter, Mike Lindblom and Vianna Davila contributed to this report.
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