On a summer Monday in Seattle, the annual Bite of Seattle food festival — a beloved gathering of thousands in the shadow of the Space Needle — was shattered by gunfire, leaving two people dead and five wounded before a suspect was taken into custody. The swiftness of the violence, unfolding in a place built for communal joy, speaks to a recurring tension in modern civic life: the fragility of public spaces and the difficulty of safeguarding them without surrendering the openness that makes them worth gathering in. As investigators work to understand what drove this act, the city is left to rec
At Least 2 Killed in Shooting at Seattle Food Festival Near Space Needle
At least two people killed and five others wounded in the shooting incident.