Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said officials would work to get federal resources. <\/p>\n
The food festival was wrapping up its annual event Sunday, the final of its three days.<\/p>\n
Estan Wakonabo was waiting in line with his girlfriend for a photo booth when people around them started running furiously, he told NBC affiliate KING of Seattle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a stampede,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Not long afterward, Wakonabo said, he noticed people on the ground, some with obvious gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s bodies everywhere,\u201d he said of those on the ground who appeared to be injured. \u201cI mean, I counted eight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul Skinner was helping operate a Bite of Seattle booth for the food truck Crave when chaos erupted, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just heard what at first sounded like firecrackers, but it\u2019s just a little too crowded for that kind of thing,\u201d he told KING. \u201cSo then, when the crowd started moving quickly in herds, you knew it was something was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cWe all got down and took cover.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The entrance to Bite of Seattle at Seattle Center on Sunday.Lindsey Wasson \/ AP<\/p>\n
Isaiah Flores Sanches described hearing the gunfire. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt went from something being so playful and so joyful to being something so horrific, and I seen people on the floor trying to take cover,\u201d he told KING.<\/p>\n
Bite of Seattle says it draws more than 350,000 people to its annual three-day festival, for which admission is free. \u201cThe Bite of Seattle is a very positive event,\u201d Davis said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t had any issue in recent years.\u201d <\/p>\n
Organizers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The civic center complex that grew into Seattle Center included core structures erected for the 1962 Seattle World\u2019s Fair, including the Coliseum, the Seattle Center Monorail and the Space Needle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMy heart right now is with the victims and their families and with everyone in our community who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-787368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}