shooting at jewish federation of greater seattle

this is a breaking story, so go to a real news outlet for updates (please not fox).  newslinks below.  what i do know is:

• a lone gunman shot up the jewish federation in downtown seattle today at about 4pm, killing at least one and wounding several others, including a pregnant woman.  he is now in custody.
• police and fbi currently don't know that there's a connection to an organized group, and do believe at the moment that the gunman was acting alone.
• they found out (possibly from him) that he parked in the garage under bed, bath & beyond. the whole area with his car is blocked off so they can bring in the bomb squad.
• swat teams drive shiny black trucks.  i saw a few zooming to the scene.
• it may be retaliation against israel's actions as of late.  and while i have never been unilaterally supportive of israel's postures and actions (actually i've been critical), i am unilaterally against shooting up the jewish federation of greater seattle.
• this led to the dumbest cell phone comment i've ever overheard on the bus: "what a weird place to have a shooting".  let me break this down.  "have" makes it sound like it's a party or a picnic, like people were invited to the shooting.  "weird" makes it sound like it was just some wacky idea to shoot up people in a jewish organization, analogous to a comment such as "jews...what a weird thing that they were killed in the holocaust".  it's not "weird", lady.  it's an intentional hate crime.  scary not "weird".  scary, hateful, say it with me.
• this is totally fucked and i'm scared.  more scared than normal.
• and angry.  but i'm not picking up a gun in response like some people in this world.

news:  seattle times | seattle p-i | northwest cable news

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