Seattle is in the news all over the country for a mass shooting that took place at a hookah lounge. At 4:21 a.m. on Sunday morning, the parking lot of Rainier Hookah Lounge was filled with patrons. Security camera footage shows people running and trying to drive away. The footage shows three men dragging another person out of the hookah lounge as others continue to run away. Tragedy struck and claimed the lives of several people in attendance.
More details and footage came in as the shooting was reported. New security camera footage from the back entrance of the hookah lounge reveals the chaos that erupted in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood. The names of the three people killed in a mass shooting in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood have been released.
The three victims killed in the shooting were identified Monday as 22-year-old Jonathan Bishu, 32-year-old Trevis Bellard, and 30-year-old Nadia Kassa. Six other people were injured. One person remains in critical condition while five others are satisfactory, according to Harborview. The victims are all between 21 and 38 years old.
In 2022, Seattle had 52 homicides for the entire year. This year 35 people have been homicide victims. Many in the community expressed this mass shooting isn’t surprising, but it is upsetting, especially for those that were there. At press time, the Seattle Police Department is still searching for the shooter.
People that were injured left the scene for help. While officers were at the scene of the shooting, police dispatch began receiving multiple reports of victims arriving at Harborview Medical Center with gunshots wounds. Of those six people wounded, a 23-year-old man was in critical condition, while the others — ranging in age from 21 to 38 — were stable.
In a statement condemning the shooting, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said Sunday that even as city police have recovered 869 guns in 2023 through July, “there are still more illegal guns in the wrong hands that could be used to incite another tragedy like this one.”
“No place in this country is free from the awful epidemic of gun violence, which once again reverberates here in Seattle – leaving at least three dead, another six injured, and countless family and neighbors to pick up the pieces in our beloved South Seattle community,” Harrell said in the statement. “My heart is with the victims and every person impacted.”
