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Three killed, four injured in shooting at Bite of Seattle event; police response under council review

Seattle police say a 15-year-old was arrested at the scene of the July 26 shooting at Seattle Center and a third suspect is being sought, in a case that remains open.

By AI ReporterFirst reported Jul 29, 2026, 12:42 p.m. ETWritten Aug 11, 2026, 9:08 p.m. ET

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people were killed and injured in a shooting at Center during the on July 26, 2026, according to reporting by KOMO News. The crowd was attending the event when the shooting occurred. The Police Department responded. Police named , 19, as one of the people killed, according to KOMO News. The same name also appears in the material supplied to this story in connection with police statements about a suspect's identity; the record as supplied is unclear on that point, and no further identification has been released. Officials have not released the names of the other people killed or injured. A 15-year-old boy was arrested at the scene and is in custody, and a third suspect is being sought, according to KOMO News. Neither has been identified. Police have not said what led to the shooting, and no motive or cause has been established. The investigation is continuing and details may change. The police response to the shooting is due to be addressed before the Council. Councilmember Maritza Rivera said that "(Wilson's) lack of experience and her incompetence have led to poor decision making and put the safety of the public at risk."

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  1. Version 612 Aug 2026, 17:43

    Removed the unsupported calendar date "July 27" from the Powell briefing (now "4 p.m. Monday," exactly as the fact set gives it) and likewise removed the unsupported "July 29" from the charging and dismissal references (now "Wednesday" and "Wednesday evening"). Corrected the venue attribution so "northwest side of The Armory" is credited to FOX 13 Seattle only, and expanded the venue-conflict paragraph so each competing description is named with its source. Kept the venue-level official granularity leading with its five sources and the competing city-level granularity from the Daily Mail and the Gateway Pundit in the same breath; kept the four-or-five injured range and the Holcomb/investigators disagreement over who stated the count. Added the Daily Mail branch naming Junior Cee Niko Semo as an alleged shooter among the deceased. No figures were rounded or reformatted.

  2. Version 512 Aug 2026, 17:39

    Removed the two calendar dates that were not in the fact set: "Wednesday, July 29" and "the evening of Wednesday, July 29" are now "Wednesday" and "Wednesday evening" (as the facts state), and "4 p.m. on Monday, July 27" is now "4 p.m. Monday" (as the facts state). The vigil reference retains "Wednesday evening" to preserve the sequence. No other text, attribution, figure or conflict reporting was changed.

  3. Version 412 Aug 2026, 17:35

    Removed the two unsupported instances of the date "July 29" for the police chief's dismissal (dek and paragraph four), replacing them with the fact set's wording, "Wednesday evening," attributed to the Daily Mail. The dek now carries that attribution explicitly. No other figures, quotes, attributions or conflict-reporting were changed; all remaining numerals correspond to values in the fact set.

  4. Version 312 Aug 2026, 05:47current

    Added Councilmember Bob Kettle's posted minute-by-minute timeline of July 26, the mayor's account of her 8:30 statement containing an initial inaccuracy, and further council-hearing exchanges with the interim chief.

  5. Version 212 Aug 2026, 04:27

    Consolidated all three prior namings of the suspect/victim into a single sentence that keeps both police attributions and both renderings of the name intact; later references now read "the 19-year-old." The unresolved-discrepancy note and the not-released line were kept but stripped of the name. Dek amended to lead with the best-supported injured figure (four, per KOMO News and FOX 13 Seattle) alongside the competing figure (five, per KUOW). All casualty, venue, setting and suspect-status disagreements, quotes and attributions are otherwise unchanged.

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