Pregnant Woman and Unborn Child Killed in Downtown Seattle Shooting
View at YouTubePastor Brice Sanders and volunteers from Coastline Church Northwest were renovating their new building at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Lenora in Downtown Seattle when they heard six gun shots from just a block away.
Sanders tells me they had to scramble for cover, get inside, and lock the doors.
According to Police, a shooting happened Tuesday morning on 4th Avenue, a busy part of Belltown near CVS, Cinerama, and Amazon headquarters.
Sanders says the shots were fired at a Tesla. “The Tesla had bullet holes in it,” he tells me.
The Seattle Police Department confirmed late on Wednesday afternoon that a pregnant woman inside the car and her unborn child died. A male victim in the car is in stable condition.
Officers arrived on the scene immediately and arrested the suspected shooter nearby. A firearm was recovered and the suspect was taken into custody.
Ironically, as officers were responding to the shooting, Mayor Bruce Harrell and other city officials were emphasizing the importance of public safety as they gathered at the grand re-opening of the City Hall Park.
The sirens of first responders heading to the crime scene interrupted the grand re-opening several times.
Belltown is struggling with an increase in open-air drug use, homelessness, and now this tragic shooting.
Lorna White lives in a tent in an alleyway near where the shooting occurred.
“Gun shot after gun shot, lots of em,” she describes hearing the shots fired on Tuesday morning. White is relieved that none of the stray bullets entered the alleyway where she resides with others experiencing homelessness.