2 people were killed in Seattle and others wounded after a gunman tried to carjack 2 vehicles, fatally shooting one driver, opened fire on a bus, and killed another driver in a head-on collision before being arrested, police said.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.A bus driver in Seattle was hailed as a hero Wednesday night for navigating his bus with about 12 passengers on board to safety after he was shot by a gunman who also carjacked two vehicles, fatally shooting one driver, before colliding head-on with a third car, killing its driver.
Police said they don't know what motivated the gunman to attempt to carjack a woman in the north end of the city, shooting and wounding her, and then open fire on the bus, wounding driver Eric Stark. Investigators at the scene of a shooting Wednesday in Seattle, where four people, including a Metro bus driver, were shot.A suspect was arrested after a brief standoff and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
"The incident unfolded before him on the street,” Constantine said. “Unprovoked, the suspected gunman fired multiple shots directly through the windshield of the bus.”"He acted heroically and put the well-being of his passengers above all else," he said.
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