SEATTLE (AP) - Two people were shot at a homeless encampment in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood Thursday, police said.
Police were searching for a suspect described as a man in his mid- to late-20s who possibly fled in a white Dodge sedan, The Seattle Times reported.
Police said the person walked into an encampment and opened fire into a car around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
A 28-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man taken to Harborview Medical Center with gunshot wounds. Police said the man was in critical condition and the woman was listed in serious condition.
Imra VanWolvelaere, who lived at the encampment for several months, told the newspaper the man who was shot is always trying to help people.
The people living in the encampment called it Recovery Park, he said, because everyone was trying to recover from something, whether divorce, addiction, COVID-19 or job loss, VanWolvelaere said.
“There’s no simple solution, but the community - if they could look at homeless people a little bit different and realize that they’re humans too,” he said, “they might join together and see what they could do to help.”
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