{"id":713027,"date":"2026-07-27T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:45:10","slug":"seattle-shooting-two-killed-and-five-injured-in-shooting-at-food-festival-near-space-needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713027\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle shooting: Two killed and five injured in shooting at food festival near Space Needle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two suspects in custodypublished at 05:16 BST<\/p>\n<p>05:16 BSTBreaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two suspects have been taken into custody following the shooting at the Seattle Center, according to Seattle mayor Katie Wilson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to thank the Seattle police officers who responded to the scene and took two suspects into custody,&#8221; she said in a statement. No further details were provided on the identities of the suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson also condemned the shooting as an &#8220;act of horrific violence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Impacted families are living through the worst moment of their lives, and an entire community is trying to understand how a gathering built around culture, connection, and joy ended in gunfire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tonight, our attention belongs to the people whose lives were taken, those fighting to recover, and the families beside them,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Seattle grieves with you, and we will stand with you in the difficult days ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two suspects in custodypublished at 05:16 BST 05:16 BSTBreaking Two suspects have been taken into custody following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-713027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}