SEATTLE – Police found a young girl shot to death in a home in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and were questioning her father on Saturday.
Officers found the 50-year-old man, whose name was not released, wandering barefoot in nearby Interlaken Park.
“He was walking without shoes on, and you can tell, the weather was not conducive to that kind of thing,” Seattle police spokesman Duane Fish said a few hours after snow stopped falling.
Officers found the girl – age 11 or 12 – after family members called 911 just before noon, saying they found the girl dead in her bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head.
Her name has not been released.
Although detectives say they have no motive at this point, KIRO-TV reported investigators were saying the shooting appeared to be a homicide rather than an accident.
Delay sought in Ressam sentencing: Government lawyers are seeking a nine-month delay in the sentencing of convicted bomb smuggler Ahmed Ressam, saying he may be asked to testify against four other accused terrorists. The motion, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court by Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis “Jerry” Diskin, indicates Ressam has provided information on Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaida network since the terrorist attacks Sept. 11. Ressam’s sentencing is scheduled for March 29. Ressam was the star witness against Mokhtar Haouari, 32, convicted in New York of supplying fake identification and cash for the millennium bomb plot. Haouari was sentenced in January to 24 years in prison. He also has given information leading to the indictment of Abu Doha, described as a bin Laden operative in London to whom Ressam reported, and Samir Ait Mohamed, an Algerian accused of participating in a plot to bomb a Jewish neighborhood in Montreal. Extradition proceedings against both are pending in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Olympia
Capitol emptied for restoration: Once again, Washington legislators are on the move, evicted a second time from the quake-damaged state Capitol so a $100 million restoration can begin. Instead of their marble mansion, senators will be jammed into the nearby state library, and House members will be housed in temporary modular buildings. State lawmakers have been busy juggling transportation tasks and balancing budgets, but now their thoughts are turning to moving boxes as everyone prepares for the two-year renovation and remodeling of the 75-year-old Capitol. They’ll return for the 2005 legislative session.
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