Seven people shot dead in Capitol Hill shooting

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At least seven people were killed in a shooting this morning at a home in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Police said one of the dead was the gunman.

At around 7 a.m. a man walked into a blue rental home in the 2100 block of East Republican Street and opened fire, killing six people. More than a dozen people who attended the party were relaxing inside after a late night party when the shooting happened, said Seattle police spokesman Rich Pruitt.

When officers confronted the gunman he "turned the weapon on himself," Pruitt said.

The man shot himself in the head with a shotgun. He was armed with several handguns, Pruitt said.

Three people injured in the shooting were taken to Harborview Medical Center, Pruitt said. The uninjured partygoers were loaded into buses by police and taken to a "warm, secure spot," Pruitt said.

"We're interviewing close to 20 witnesses — some from the house, some from surrounding areas," Pruitt said.

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Nancie Thorne, whose 15-year-old daughter, Suzanne, was in the house at the time of the shooting got a call from her daughter's boyfriend this morning.

"It's the worse phone call a mom can get," Thorne, said, adding that she went to the home after getting the call.

She said she doesn't know where Suzanne currently is.

The girl, Jesse Mullens, Suzanne's 18-year-old boyfriend, and another friend had gone to what Thorne called a "zombie rave" in downtown Seattle last night.

It appeared to be a sanctioned event, she said. They purchased tickets. Her daughter told her she thought it was at Studio Seven, a rock club south of Seattle's Sodo district.

Mullens told Thorne that after the rave, they went to a house on Capitol Hill for an after-party. As the couple and their friend were preparing to leave, he told Thorne, the gunman arrived and barged into the house. Suzanne had gone back inside, possibly to get something.

Mullens told Thorne he heard a lot of gunshots. He thought Suzanne was stuck somewhere in the house with the shooter between her and the door.

"She shouldn't have gone to the rave. I've never approved of those things," Thorne said. "The young kids just don't get it. I just hope to God she's alive," she said crying. "And if she is, she's grounded for life."

Thorne said Mullen was taken by police with a large group of people to a police precinct and she has not been able to reach him again.

Charles Jackson, who lives two doors down from the home, said he was "just getting out of bed and I heard 'boom, boom.' "

"By the time I got out there was one more shot fired," said Jackson, 67.

Jackson put on his clothes and saw a man lying on a sidewalk who appeared to be shot.

Jackson, who has lived in the neighborhood 40 years, describes the area as relatively quiet.

He said he's seen young people with facial piercings and heavy makeup walking around recently. He believes they're connected to the rental home.

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels spent a portion of the morning surveying the neighborhood.

"Our thoughts are with the people at Harborview and with the victims of this senseless violence," Nickels said. "It's a terrible tragedy, we don't have incidents like this in this city very often."

Everyone OK?

edit: holy shit. this is a fucking block away from my apartment. there was police tape blocking off most of the street when i walked by. fucking surreal.