Caitlyn Freeman

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Caitlyn Freeman

Over 7,381 Seattle City Light customers in South Seattle and Tukwila were without power Wednesday afternoon, according to outage maps. The outage event, apparently caused by a branch that fell on a power line, started around 2 p.m.As of 4:45 p.m., about 6,000 customers have been restored, with 1,742 outages remaining in the southern tip of the city and Tukwila areas. “Staff and crew continue to investigate and assess the problem,” City Light spokesperson Jenn Strang said in an email.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Caitlyn Freeman

A boy was shot Tuesday afternoon outside Lincoln High School in Tacoma, sending the school into lockdown, police said. The boy was shot around 2:49 p.m., just before dismissal, off South 37th Street, Tacoma Police Department spokesperson Sgt. John Correa said. The boy suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening. A suspect was not in custody as of 4:30 p.m.The shooting happened off school property, but it sent the building into a modified lockdown.

1 week ago | tri-cityherald.com | Caitlyn Freeman

A man was shot and killed in Kent's East Hill neighborhood Monday afternoon, police say. Officers found the man bleeding from his head inside a vehicle around 2:32 p.m. near Southeast 240th Street and 108 Avenue Southeast, police said. The vehicle had crashed into other cars. The man was extracted from the locked vehicle and died despite lifesaving efforts. The 28-year-old suspected shooter remained on the scene and surrendered his firearm, police say.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Caitlyn Freeman

A man was shot and killed in Kent’s East Hill neighborhood Monday afternoon, police say. Officers found the man bleeding from his head inside a vehicle around 2:32 p.m. near Southeast 240th Street and 108 Avenue Southeast, police said. The vehicle had crashed into other cars. The man was extracted from the locked vehicle and died despite lifesaving efforts. The 28-year-old suspected shooter remained on the scene and surrendered his firearm, police say.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Nicholas Deshais |Greg Kim |Caitlyn Freeman |Alex Halverson

In downtown Seattle, aboard a Washington state ferry and at dozens of other “No Kings” rallies across the Pacific Northwest, tens of thousands of protesters raised their voices Saturday in a public rebuke of President Donald Trump’s hard-line policies. Nationally, organizers estimated 2,000 protests were calling for Trump to be “dethroned,” saying he has wielded his presidential authority like a monarch, not an elected leader, according to the 50501 Movement.