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The Guardian - US
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Uwa Ede-Osifo and agency

Bullets that killed two at Seattle food festival do not match teen shooter’s gun, police say

Memorial for victims of shooting
A memorial for the victims of the Seattle festival shooting. Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/AP

Bullets that fatally struck two bystanders during a shootout at a Seattle food festival last weekend do not appear to have come from the gun that a 15-year-old arrested at the scene was firing, police said in court documents filed on Wednesday.

The teen sprayed an untraceable “ghost gun” into a crowd, authorities say. Preliminary ballistics testing did not match the bullets recovered from the deceased bystanders to that weapon.

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