Absolutely not a mass shooting like Sandy Hook or Fort Hood. Just a random crime, nothing to see here.
January 26, 2016 Seattle Jungle Homeless Camp Mass Shooting 2 killed, 3 injured 3 arrested. Samoan suspect, Asian, Hispanic victims. In Seattle, Washington, a group of 3 to 5 masked men approached a group sitting around a fire at the Jungle homeless camp under a freeway. They opened fire in a mass shooting, killing two and injuring three. Jeannine L. Zapata, 45, (Hispanic) and James Quoc Tran (Vietnamese Asian), 33, died of multiple gunshot wounds. James & Jerome Taafulisia, 17 and 16, are charged as adults, third not identified charged as teen. Motive stated either botched drug deal or debt collection for mother, but looks like a non-terrorist motive mass shooting like Sandy Hook.
They were soon identified by a witness, and arrested. Three teen brothers who are not identified because of their age told the informants they were either going to complete a drug deal, or collect a drug debt for their mother. However, it may have been a cover story to hide a true intent was to commit a mass shooting for terrorist or other unstated motives. The oldest brother was armed with a .45-caliber handgun and the 16-year-old carried a .22-caliber, and they took about $100 worth of black tar heroin and $200 or $300 in cash. In February 2014, the now-16-year-old was charged with robbery for stealing a backpack from a middle-school classmate armed with a Taser, and last February participated in a taxi cab carjacking and police chase that “was fun and exciting,” The eldest was charged last year with making false statements to a police officer and has previous convictions for robbery and theft. James & Jerome Taafulisia, 17 and 16, are charged as adults with two counts of first-degree felony murder and three counts of first-degree assault, along with firearms charges, the Seattle Times reports. Their 13-year-old brother is facing the same charges as a juvenile, but the prosecutor said he was a full participant in the slayings. witness told police the gunmen were targeting a man known as “Phats” and were looking for drugs and cash.
James Taafulisia, 17, and his brother, Jerome Taafulisia, 16, have been charged with murder in the shootings of five people in “the Jungle” homeless camp in Seattle. (Washington State Patrol)
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- Heavy James & Jerome Taafulisia: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
- Wikipedia:The Jungle On January 26, 2016, two people were killed and three were injured during a shooting at the Jungle encampment.[14]
- Wikipedia: 2 killed 3 injured Homelessness in Seattle Two people are killed and three others are hospitalized, two with life-threatening injuries, following a shooting in the "The Jungle" homeless encampment in the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington. Police are searching for two suspects. (NBC News) (seattlepi.com)
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- Asian Victims
- Asian Suspect (Samoan)
- Homeless victim
- Mass murder attacks and shootings
- Pacific Islander Suspect (Samoan)
- Teen suspect
- Washington State
*Samoan
Samoans are a troubled Pacific Islander group in Seattle.
Here is another Samoan with the same last name: Founder of Voice of Christ Full Gospel Church dies Reports from American Samoa say the founder of the Voice of Christ Full Gospel Church Reverend Elder Taafulisia Tilo died at the age ...
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- Feb 3, 2016 Their mother’s $500 drug debt was cover story behind three teenage brothers’ visit to a Sodo homeless encampment known as The Jungle, Seattle police say. in shooting Three teenage brothers accused of killing two people and wounding three others in The Jungle had gone to the homeless encampment to settle a $500 drug debt owed to their mother, Seattle police allege in newly released documents. Witnesses to the Jan. 26 shooting identified the boys to police, who then employed informants to record conversations in which the suspects acknowledged the shooting... The brothers also sold a .45-caliber handgun, one of two weapons used in the shootings, to an informant... two older boys have felony juvenile records, while the youngest brother was arrested in September for making a false statement to a police officer, Good thing they have conflicting cover stories of going to complete a drug deal, or collecting a debt, or armed robbery, and they didn't just intentionally plan a terrorist mass shooting of 5 random people and hoped authorities would believe it was just a random crime. Nobody intentionally targets homeless camps, or accidentally shoots a random woman in a Renton theater, or suddenly swerves a duck into a bus filled with international students, or shoots up high school classmates over a girlfriend, or runs down 5 different groups of people in Las Vegas or Palestine for political reasons.
- 2 killed 3 injured Homelessness in Seattle Two people are killed and three others are hospitalized, two with life-threatening injuries, following a shooting in the "The Jungle" homeless encampment in the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington. Police are searching for two suspects. (NBC News) (seattlepi.com)
- 2 Killed, 3 Hurt in Shooting at Seattle's 'The Jungle' Homeless Camp NBCNews.com Two people were killed and three others were injured in a "targeted" shooting at a Seattle homeless encampment on Tuesday, police said. 2 dead, 3 hurt in shooting at notorious homeless campKIRO Seattle Slaying in ′the Jungle': Deadly shooting at Seattle homeless camp deepens crisisWashington Post
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