Victims, suspects, motive: What we know so far about Seattle festival shooting

3 min readJul 27, 2026 01:32 PM IST Police respond to a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday, July 26, 2026, in Seattle, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Gunfire broke out during Seattle’s annual Bite of Seattle food festival on Sunday evening. The shooting occurred around 6 pm local time during the closing hours of the Bite of Seattle festival, held at Seattle Center near the Space Needle. The annual event, which began in 1982, attracts around 350,000 visitors over three days and features hundreds of food vendors, retailers, and live performances. A large police and emergency response was deployed to the Seattle Center following the shooting, with authorities evacuating parts of the sprawling events campus. Police have not disclosed the exact location w