Seattle Police have a suspect in custody for a shooting that killed a woman in Belltown early Sunday morning.
Officers responded to a shots fired call at a building on Wall Street and Western Avenue around 1:10 a.m.Investigators located a woman in her 20s or 30s with a gunshot wound in an alleyway between Wall and Vine Street. Despite life-saving efforts by officers and Seattle Fire crews, the woman died at the scene.
Seattle Police quickly identified a woman in her late 20s to early 30s as a suspect and took her into custody. SPD says they also recovered a gun.The Homicide Unit is now investigating what led up to the deadly shooting.Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at 233-5000.
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