What's Known and What Isn't
The names of all of the victims of Saturday morning's shootings are still not being reported in the press. Christopher Williamson, Jason Travers and Jeremy Martin (pictured above) have been widely reported. It can be inferred from this Seattle Times article that Suzanne Thorne, 15, is also dead. Two victims, then, are still unknown and no names have been released by the police as of this morning.
And a motive isn't known. And likely will never be known. A guy freaked out and shot a bunch of entirely innocent people, but that isn't going to be enough. We predicted yesterday that someone will be blamed: "Underage dances, ravers, house partiers, punks, goths (even after the Guardian's recent love letter to them), Seattle, guns; all of these are about to come under fire." We expected blogs to finger point, and of course they are. The SLOG isn't going to blame anyone and neither is the Weekly or probably the P-I but we felt that the Seattle Times was in danger of publishing something stupid on their editorial pages. This morning they didn't disappoint:
Beyond the raw, ugly mass murder, this event forces every parent of a teen or young adult to sit down and ask: Where exactly do you go at night? Do you really know the people with whom you are attending a party?Obviously, not every teenager who goes to a dance or party is looking for trouble. Police found marijuana, beer and wine at the home.
