{"id":832545,"date":"2026-07-29T00:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832545\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:44:18","slug":"15-year-old-arrested-in-seattle-festival-shooting-was-armed-with-ghost-gun-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832545\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old arrested in Seattle festival shooting was armed with ghost gun: police"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police Chief Shon Barnes told a news conference that the weapon was a 9 mm gun from Polymer80 \u2014 a now-defunct company that was once a leading manufacturer of ghost gun parts.<\/p>\n

Ghost guns are privately made firearms that lack serial numbers<\/p>\n

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Seattle police arrest 15-year-old in connection with deadly festival shooting<\/p>\n

Police said Monday there were at least three suspects involved in a shootout at a food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle over the weekend, including one who was among those killed and a 15-year-old who has been arrested. The violence left three people dead and at least four others, including a toddler, injured.<\/p>\n

The 15-year-old arrested after a shootout at food festival <\/a>near Seattle’s Space Needle over the weekend was armed with a ghost gun with an extended magazine, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Police Chief Shon Barnes told a news conference that the weapon was a 9 mm gun from Polymer80 \u2014 a now-defunct company that was once a leading manufacturer of ghost gun parts.<\/p>\n

Investigators also recovered two other weapons and 14 shell casings that had been fired by weapons of two different calibres, he said.<\/p>\n

Ghost guns are privately made firearms that lack serial numbers used to trace them and are often purchased without a background check.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials say ghost guns have increasingly been used in violent crimes across the U.S.<\/p>\n

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