Five people were shot outside a convenience store in downtown Seattle Wednesday night, and the shooter is at large, police said.
Gunshots were reported shortly before 7 p.m. outside the 7-Eleven store on Third Avenue between Pike and Pine streets, at a major bus stop.
Witnesses said a group of people were arguing when the gunman began to walk away, and then turned around and fired into the crowd. At least one victim was a bystander, Seattle police Assistant Chief Robert Merner said.
People in the area heard several rounds of gunshots before police responded, said Irfan Rahman, a worker at a nearby smoke shop.
There was an additional police presence in downtown Seattle because of an anti-Donald Trump rally, which started at Westlake Mall earlier in the evening.
Detectives from the department’s gang and homicide units will be investigating. The area will be closed to traffic for several hours.
The incident is the state’s eighth mass shooting this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The nonpartisan organization, which tracks and verifies incidents around the country, defines “mass shooting” as any single incident in which four or more people are fatally shot or wounded, not including the shooter.
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