“We’ve had several incidents here in the International District, especially against elderly folks,” said Kayla Schoonhoven. “Which I find so incredibly heartbreaking.”
“A lot of me feels like a call to action,” she said. “But what do you do, you know? Where do you start?”
The suspect, a 72-year-old Asian man, targeted a ballroom where nearly everyone would be middle-aged and older and celebrating the Lunar New Year. “You know, the people that got killed is about my age, you know,” said Richard Chang, “Between 50 and 60 years old.”“Yeah, it really upset me and the community itself,” he said.“That’s, that’s a little tricky,” Chang said. “Because why did he do it? We don’t know. He shot himself. So, the story will come.”“I wouldn’t know what, what happened,” said Jackie Zahr, visiting from Portland, Oregon. “I just know a lot of people passed away, and very tragic on Chinese New Year.
We also spoke to a University of Washington professor who says the fact that this happened on the eve of the Lunar New Year makes it that much more terrible, a time that is sacred to her and Asians across the world.
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