SEATTLE — A 33-year-old woman was killed in a shooting at a motel in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood early Friday.
At 12:46 a.m., officers were dispatched to the Park Plaza Motel in the 4400 block of Aurora Avenue North for reports that a woman had been shot.
A KIRO 7 News crew spoke to a woman living at the motel named Felicia Kirkland who felt regret and sadness over the shooting.
“When it comes to lives nowadays, I mean money, things are replaceable but lives aren’t,” said Kirkland.
Kirkland claimed that she found her neighbor after she had been shot and tried to help her.
“I called 911. There was like five of us holding her, telling her to hang in there. This is very difficult, we were on it,” said Kirkland.
She said police did eventually arrive but it was too late for her neighbor.
“I feel really bad. I feel bad as far as not being able to get somebody, the paramedics you know,” she said.
Officers and Seattle Fire Department medics tried to save her life, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Several people living at the motel spoke to KIRO 7 off-camera and said they saw the police response after the shooting but did not see anything leading up to it. Felicia Kirkland was the only one to claim that she heard the shots.
“We just heard a pop and then she said, ‘I’ve been shot.’ Those were her last words,” Kirkland said.
Kirkland hopes a suspect is tracked down by police.
“I did what I had to do. I feel good as far as me doing what I could, but was I able to help her? No! I’m not God, either,” she said.
Members of the Seattle Police Department’s Crime Scene Investigation Unit were still collecting evidence inside the motel room hours after the shooting.
Homicide detectives will investigate.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the violent crimes tip line at 206-233-5000.
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