Seven dead when gunman opens fire in rental home

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• published: 30 Jul 2015
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1. Scene of shooting 2. Officials at cordoned off scene 3. Official gets into vehicle 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Police Chief, Gil Kerlikowske: "We have six victims of homicide. The shooter committed suicide, and there are two wounded people at the hospital. The dead include five males and two females. Early to mid teens, to probably mid twenties. No identification has been released or will be released by the police department." 5. Seattle Police vehicles on street at scene, with officials standing close by 6. Policeman standing guard outside crime scene, with police cordon 7. Policeman gets into medical examiners car 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charles Jackson, neighbourhood resident: "This morning I was just getting out of bed and I heard two shots, boom boom. Then I put on clothes and ran out and I heard 5 or 6 more shots; some guy come out the house, went to the neighbour's house... was shot, another guy was going up the street... I looked closer shot himself, I guess he might have been the shooter, I don't know." (Q: "This was on the street?") "Yeah right in front of the house." (Q: "You saw him shoot himself?") "Yeah" (Q: "Tell me what that was like, tell me again what you saw and what it felt like to see this.") "Scary, I ran back in house after I saw that." 6. Pan from police car to house 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Debrah Walker, neighbourhood resident: "We've lived here about 26 years and in the last 20 years it's been a really wonderful neighbourhood. When we first moved here there was problems, we would hear gunfire occasionally. Although that sounded more like a pop, pop, pop. This was a reverberating loud noise so I was hoping that wasn't what was going on. So I am pretty upset actually, I mean I am very disturbed and unsettled when I realise that lives were taken at that moment. It's sad, it's very sad." 8. Close-up official at scene 9. Pan from house to officials on ground STORYLINE A gunman opened fire on Saturday morning in a rental home in Seattle occupied by 20 young partygoers, killing six and critically injuring at least one other before committing suicide when confronted by police. Officers found four people dead in various rooms and another on the porch. Three of the injured people were taken to Harbourview Medical Centre; one died, and another was in extremely critical condition. "We have six victims of homicide. The shooter committed suicide... there are two wounded people at the hospital. The dead include five males and two females," confirmed Police Chief, Gil Kerlikowske speaking from the crime scene. Officers transported about a dozen witnesses to a precinct to interview them. The victims, men and women, were in their late teens and early 20s, police said. "No identification has been released or will be released by the police department," said Kerlikowske. Officers said they were not yet aware of a possible motive. Police said a fellow officer in the neighbourhood heard the shots and arrived to find one person staggering out of the house with a gunshot wound. The officer confronted another man with a shotgun and told him several times to put the weapon down, but then the man turned it on himself and fired. The suspect also had a handgun, police said. Debrah Walker, neighbourhood resident said she heard a loud "reverberating noise." Local resident Charles Jackson said he heard two shots as he was getting out of bed. "Then I put on clothes and ran out and I heard five or six more shots; some guy come out the house, went to the neighbour's house... was shot, another guy was going up the street... I looked closer, shot himself, I guess he might have been the shooter, I don't know." Police also said the gunman had been at the house earlier, left, and then returned. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/853696c1c1cdf6bfa7904d4ec4753c51 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork