Police say preliminary ballistics testing does not link the bullets recovered from two bystanders who were killed during a shootout at a crowded Seattle food festival to the gun of a 15-year-old arrested at the scene. In court documents filed Wednesday, investigators state that the bullets found on the deceased bystanders do not appear to have been fired from the weapon the teen was seen using, based on initial tests.
The reporting describes the incident as a shootout during the festival last weekend in which bystanders were fatally struck. The teen is said to have been arrested at the scene, and authorities have described the circumstances surrounding the weapon involved, including references in some accounts to it being difficult to trace. However, across the sources provided, the consistent point is the same: the bullets that killed the two bystanders are not matching the teen’s gun in preliminary testing.
Police also indicate broader investigative context, including potential connections authorities are considering, but they do not identify in these accounts who fired the bullets that killed the bystanders.
