Just when people thought things could not get more bizarre in Seattle, Washington following the election of a Democrat-Socialist mayor who has never held public office before, police arrested a convicted murderer who was supposed to be under Department of Corrections supervision, and he had a loaded handgun.
The unidentified 38-year-old suspect was found sleeping in a hotel lobby, with a bottle of liquor next to him, according to the Seattle Police Blotter. He also had a handgun, from which the serial number had apparently been removed. This definitely violated terms of his supervised release.
Public reaction to the report at Seattle’s KIRO—the city’s CBS affiliate—is overwhelmingly negative, with many people commenting at the station’s Facebook posting. At last count, there were 189 comments on the story, many dripping with sarcasm and many more expressing anger, outrage and/or simple astonishment.
Neither KIRO or the Seattle Police Blotter identified the suspect, and only noted that h was booked into the King County Jail for a firearms violation.
The suspect was convicted of Second-Degree murder, and for a felon to have gun is a felony, and the fact it had no serial number is an additional crime. The pistol appeared to be a Rock Island Armory built on the Model 1911 platform.
According to Seattle police, the suspect was taken into custody “without incident,” but some people are wondering how this man, who was supposed to be under DOC supervision, managed to get his hands on a pistol.
One KIRO listener wrote, “So all of Washington’s unconstitutional gun control laws aren’t preventing criminal’s (sic) from obtaining firearms illegally? It’s almost like it was designed specifically to target their political opposition & has zero to due (sic) with keeping them out of dangerous people’s hands…”
Another wrote, “And your new mayor wants to abolish the police….I’m not going anywhere near Seattle.”
