Seattle Festival Shooting Unraveled | Seattle News

Seattle News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 31, 2026 · 1m

A chaotic mass shooting at Seattle’s Bite of Seattle food festival left two dead, including a toddler’s caregiver, and four others wounded — all in the crossfire of what investigators now believe was a gunfight. Though a 15-year-old suspect has been arrested with charges tied to an illegal ghost gun, ballistics prove his weapon didn’t fire any of the bullets that killed victims. Court docs suggest one of the deceased, 19-year-old Junior Niko-Semo, may have been a shooter. Three guns were recovered, but shell casings point to at least four weapons — and police are still hunting for more…