• Three killed in Seattle cafe shooting
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[quote][img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60605000/png/_60605959_screen-shot-2012-05-30-at-3.07.49-pm.png[/img] Seattle police say this man in a cafe security photo is the primary suspect, but have not identified him.[/quote] [quote=BBC][B]Three people have been killed and two hurt after a gunman opened fire in the university district of Seattle, in the US state of Washington.[/B] Two men died at the scene while a woman died at hospital. The two remaining are seriously wounded. Police are looking for a male suspect in his 30s, wearing dark clothes. The shooting happened at about 11:00 (18:00 GMT) at Cafe Racer, a venue north of the University of Washington that hosts art and music events. A second shooting was reported a half-hour later in central Seattle when a man fatally shot a woman in an apparent carjacking, then fled in a black SUV. It is not known whether the incidents are related, and the two shooting follow a series of seemingly random shootings in the city. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn said that the shootings had "shaken" the city and said the police's highest priority was to find the suspects as well as to bring an end to "this wave of gun violence". Evan Hill, who lives above the cafe, described the site as "the strangest place to think of a shooting". Three schools in the area were placed under lockdown while the search for the cafe gunman was under way, a Seattle school district spokeswoman said. Police released a security photo of the suspect in the cafe shooting, but Assistant Chief Jim Pugel said they had not yet positively identified the man. Officials have located the SUV, but not the suspect in the second shooting and found a gun on the vehicle's front seat. Separately, a man was shot dead on Thursday by a stray bullet while driving in Seattle with his family. Another apparently random shooting was reported in Seattle in April when a 21-year-old woman who had recently moved to the city died in a drive-by attack.[/quote] [quote][img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60605000/jpg/_60605536_60605535.jpg[/img] Police searched throughout the university's district for the gunman[/quote] [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18274274]BBC News[/url] Video [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gunman-kills-five-shoots-himself-in-seattle/2012/05/31/gJQAkle63U_gallery.html[/url]
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