SEATTLE – One man was killed and two people were wounded early Saturday morning, when a gunman opened fire in the Pioneer Square district.

A 23-year-old man was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition, but died around noon, KING-TV reported.

Authorities did not release his name or any other information about him.

The other victims were described as adult males in their early 20s or early 30s. Their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, KING reported.

Investigators said 15 to 20 shots were fired.

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Tacoma: Prosecutor sues over termination

A former senior deputy prosecutor in Pierce County says she was wrongfully terminated and has filed a claim against the county’s lead prosecutor, seeking $850,000 to $1.5 million in damages.

Barbara Corey, a 20-year veteran of the prosecutor’s office, claims that Pierce County prosecutor Gerry Horne illegally fired her two years ago.

Corey, 53, claims her termination damaged her professional reputation, caused long-term physical injury and “extreme mental anguish,” limited her ability to pursue meaningful career alternatives and cost her earnings and retirement benefits.

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Manson: Soccer player arrested for shoving

An 18-year-old Chelan High School soccer player has been arrested after he was accused of shoving a referee and a sheriff’s deputy at a match.

The player was booked into the Chelan County Regional Justice Center for investigation of felony third-degree assault, as well as fourth-degree assault, resisting arrest and a warrant for failure to appear on an earlier, unrelated fourth-degree assault charge.

“It appeared to be one of these cases where one team is starting to advance and score and the other team gets frustrated,” said Manson School District Superintendent Steve McKenna, who was at the game.

Chelan School District Superintendent Jim Busey said the student will be expelled, and there will be “appropriate discipline” for three other players ejected from the game.

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Leavenworth: Wildlife officials kill cougar

A cougar that ate a pet cat was later shot and killed a few yards from a resort, state Department of Fish and Wildlife officials said.

Several people saw the cougar eating a pet cat at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat. Officers shot and killed the animal Thursday night after it climbed a tree with the cat’s carcass, Fish and Wildlife Department Sgt. Doug Ward said.

The general manager of the resort, Paula Helsel, said the cat, named Marmalade, belonged to the owner, Harriet Bullitt, and the staff.

Ward said the cougar appears to be the same animal that bit a Leavenworth man on the leg Tuesday while he was playing fetch with his dog. The man was treated for a puncture wound.

The cougar was a female, about 2 years old, weighing no more than 50 pounds, Ward said, adding that it was skinny and in poor condition and apparently didn’t have survival skills.

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Oregon: Court rules for deported woman

A federal appeals court Friday ruled in favor of a woman ordered deported from Oregon to South Africa after her husband of 11 months was killed in a car crash.

The ruling by the 9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco did not rule that Carla Freeman, a dual citizen of South Africa and Italy, could remain in the U.S., but said she could keep her status as a spouse and could apply for the right to do so.

She was working temporarily in the United States as an au pair when she met Robert Freeman, whom she married near Chicago in 2001. She then returned to South Africa and came back to the United States under a visa waiver program allowing her a 90-day visitor’s stay.

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