Police found four people fatally shot in a Seattle home
Thursday after neighbors reported gunfire and a wounded woman ran into the
front yard telling officers, "My mom's gone crazy."
Officers responded to a report of gunshots at about 1:30
p.m. local time and could still hear shots being fired from the house when they
arrived, police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said.
Police said that while they were arriving, a man in his 50s
ran into the house. Two more shots were fired and he ran back out, telling
officers his wife had shot herself.
When police were able to go inside, they found the four
dead, including a woman in her 50s they believe was the shooter, Whitcomb said.
He said police don't believe anyone else was involved.
In addition to the older woman, the dead were two women in
their late teens and a man in his 30s, police said. Their relationships were
not immediately known.
Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel told Seattlepi.com a
42-year-old wounded woman - who fled the house and is expected to survive - was
able to speak to officers when they arrived.
"All she said was, 'My mom has gone crazy,' "
Pugel said.
The woman was in serious but stable condition at Harborview
Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg-Hanson said Thursday
afternoon.
Police said two handguns were recovered from the house in a
lower middle-class neighborhood a block north of southwest Seattle's city
limits. No motive for the shootings was known, officers said.
Neighbor Bobby Miller told KOMO that police showed up almost
immediately after the shots were fired.
"I just heard gunshots. I come out and cops were all
over," Miller said. "Just 'bam, bam' and that was it. Then screaming
over here."
Travis Rowland, 53, said he was about a block away waiting
to get his truck repaired at the auto shop when he saw a woman run from the
house hollering.
As police arrived, Rowland said, a man "busted away
from the police officers and ran into the house." Rowland said the man was
inside for about 10 to 15 seconds before "there were a couple more shots,
pow, pow, pow. At first I didn't know who was shooting. He came back outside.”
