On a summer Saturday in Seattle, a food festival meant to celebrate community and abundance became the site of sudden, devastating violence. Two people were killed and at least five others wounded — among them a two-year-old child — when gunfire erupted near the Space Needle during the Bite of Seattle festival, a gathering that draws hundreds of thousands. It is a moment that speaks to a grief now familiar in American public life: the shattering of ordinary joy by extraordinary harm, in a place where no one thought to be afraid.
Two killed, five injured in shooting at Seattle Center food festival
Two people killed and at least five injured, including a two-year-old child; hundreds of festival attendees exposed to gunfire and panic.