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Second office shooting this week claims 2 fives in Sea
Police search for disguised, unidentified gunman
SEATTLE (AP) — A gunman wearing a
dark 'overcoat over camouflage clothing
opened fire yesterday in the office of a ship re
pair company, killing two people and wound
ing two others. A search was under way for
the attacker, police said.
Police used dogs in the hunt through the
largely residential Wallingford neighborhood.
At least a dozen schools in the area north of
downtown Seattle were locked down with the
children inside while the search continued,
police said.
The shooting happened about 10:30 a.m. in
an office of Northlake Shipyard on the north
shore of Lake Union, police said.
“He walked in and started shooting. That’s
all we know,” Pam McCammon, a police
spokesperson, said.
One man died at the scene, and three others
were wounded. The second victim died at Har-
borview Medical Center, police at the hospital said.
Hospital spokesperson Larry Zalin said one
man remained in critical condition. The other vic
tim, a 19-year-old man, was in satisfactory con
dition with a gunshot wound in the right arm.
One victim told detectives that the four who
were injured — all employees of Northlake
Shipyard — were in the office when the shoot
er came in, and that none knew him, said po
lice spokesperson Christie-Lynne Bonner.
The suspect, described as possibly in his
30s, was wearing the overcoat and camouflage
clothing along with a brown hat when he
walked in a back door of the business and
started firing, police said.
Jeannie Parr, who was in a different office
across the hallway from the scene, said sfie was
about 6 feet from where the shootings took place.
“He came in calmly,” she told Northwest
Cable News. “I didn’t hear any sounds of a
confrontation or argument. ... All I heard
was gunshots.”
Christian Weber, president of a Web page
design company, said he came back from
lunch to find police all around his office build
ing near the scene.
“1 hope my friends and employees are all
right,” he said. “I hope they find him, and he’s
not still here when they leave.”
Scottie Pierce of Seattle Boat, across the
street from the shipyard building, said he was
sending his employees home early.
“It’s almost a surreal type situation, faced
with what the nation went through in Hawaii
yesterday,” he told Northwest Cable News.
“I’m quite concerned that there’s someone
running around with a gun.”
Seven people were shot to death Tuesday at
a Xerox Corp. building in Honolulu.
The suspected gunman, Byran Uyesugi, a
Xerox employee, fled after the slayings and
surrendered hours later.
President Clinton expressed his sorrow
about the shootings from the White House.
“Let me begin by saying that I join with all
Americans in expressing shock and profound sor
row at the shootings which have occurred over the
last two days in Honolulu and Seattle,” he said.
“The federal government has offered all ap
propriate assistance to local officials. Our
thoughts and prayers are with the victims and
with their families.”
Barbara Gravelle, a receptionist at a busi
ness near the Northlake Shipyard office, said
she knows three of the people who were shot.
“They’re all kids. They don’t deserve this,”
she said. “It’s not right. They’re good kids —
good-natured and happy.”
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Cable news networks take precautions, try not to hinder manhunt
NEW YORK (AP) — As police
searched for a gunman in Seattle
yesterday, two cable news net
works gave their audience a
bird’s-eye view.
But while CNN and MSNBC
carried extended “chopper cam”
sequences, they took measures
not to hamper the effort to find
the man who just hours earlier
had opened fire, killing one per
son and wounding three others.
Meanwhile, newscasters made
the audience aware of the need for
restraint.
“Police are very leery of instant
communication,” CNN’s Seattle
correspondent Jim Hill told view
ers, “and the ability of the media
... to simply give away the where
abouts of police during a critical
part of a search.”
“I’ve noticed that the helicopter
pilots are taking very, very tight shots
or veiy, veiy long shots” during the
house-to-house investigation, replied
CNN anchor Lou Waters.
“We’re following our standards
and practices guide,” CNN
spokesperson David Bittler said.
“We’re being mindful of how we
describe or show law enforcement
actions, in the event that the sus
pect is watching our air.”
Like CNN, MSNBC relied on
“chopper cam” video from Seat
tle affiliate stations. But MSNBC
opted to broadcast only record
ed footage of the search, which
it reviewed for any telling details
before airing, according to
MSNBC spokesperson Cameron
Blanchard.
“You’re NOT looking at a live
picture of where the police are fo
cusing the search,” viewers were
told in a typical reminder from an
MSNBC correspondent.
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HONOLULU (AP) — Police
had few clues yesterday to why
Xerox copier repairman Byran
Uyesugi allegedly opened fire on
his co-workers, killing seven a day
earlier.
Uyesugi, in police custody
since his arrest Tuesday after
noon, has offered no explanation,
police said.
“He was under no threat of losing
his job. There was no thought of it,
no hint of it,” Xerox
president and CEO
G. Richard Thoman
said yesterday. He
and other company
officials would not
comment on the
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comments that he
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knew him as “a very quiet, re
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“Maybe it was the last straw. I
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not ask his brother why.
Police said Uyesugi, a 40-year-
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into his two-story office building
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a co-worker and then allegedly
fired 20 rounds at his fellow tech
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his supervisor.
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