SEATTLE — Three months into the year, violent crime in Seattle has already claimed 13 lives, accounting for half of the 26 homicides committed in King County in the first quarter of 2022.
That sad tally has broken a six-year-old record, when 12 of the 23 homicides committed countywide happened within Seattle city limits during the first quarter of 2016.
Four of this year's killings in Seattle were committed in a single week, from March 17 to 24. Ten of this year's homicide victims died from gunshot wounds and all were males, although not all have been identified.
