Officers did not find witnesses or physical evidence, such as shell casings, to suggest where the shootings took place, said police spokesman Sean Whitcomb. It is unclear how many people were involved, but the police gang-unit responded. "This is a tough one for us," Whitcomb said.

An off-duty officer working at the Garfield Teen Life Center, a late-night club adjacent to the high school, heard the faint sound of gunshots just after 11 p.m. Friday. The officer then found a 19-year-old man with a bullet wound to the abdomen outside the club.

A short time later, a 16-year-old with a gunshot wound in the back was found about two blocks east. The teen was trying to reach the home of relatives on Martin Luther King Way, Whitcomb said.

Police had extra patrols around Garfield High on Friday, said Whitcomb, a precaution after the shooting last weekend of a 15-year-old boy in South Seattle.

Seattle

Man seriously hurt in apartment fire

An early-morning fire at a South Seattle apartment house left one man in serious condition and displaced five others.

Just after 5 a.m., Seattle firefighters found flames shooting from the roof of the building at 8616 14th Ave. S. in South Park. The two-story home had been converted to four apartment units.

A man in his 50s was found unconscious in a back bedroom. After being revived with CPR, he was taken to Harborview, then to the hyperbaric chamber at Virginia Mason Medical Center.

The fire caused an estimated $150,000 in damage to the building and destroyed about $20,000 of the tenants' belongings, according to fire spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick.

Spokane

Driver dies as car plunges off garage

A car plunged from the fifth level of a parking garage Saturday, killing a 62-year-old woman, police said.

Cpl. Tom Lee, spokesman for the Spokane Police Department, identified the victim as Jo E. Savage of Pullman.

She died after being transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center in critical condition.

The dark blue Subaru Outback she was driving apparently knocked down a concrete wall in the River Park Square garage before crashing to the ground, landing upside down shortly after noon, witnesses told the Spokesman-Review.

Rick Andreas said he saw the car fall after he had parked about 50 feet away. "I heard a big crash, then a tire squealing like she didn't let off the gas," Andreas said. "Then there was the screeching of the chain-link fence as the car went over."

Authorities closed the garage to parking after the accident but allowed those who had already parked there to drive out.

Kitsap County

Missing man's death a suicide

A retired naval officer found Friday in rural South Kitsap County died of self-inflicted cuts, the county coroner's office determined Saturday, according to sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson.

Nearly 100 volunteers participated in a search for Jason Patterson, 49, after he went missing Thursday while walking his dogs.

Vancouver, Wash.

Norovirus outbreak claims third victim

A third person has died in a norovirus outbreak at the Cascade Inn retirement home, and the number of residents and staff afflicted has risen to 59, the Clark County Health Department says.

The third death occurred Friday, the Health Department said.

The victim was not identified, The Columbian newspaper reported.

Forty of those affected are residents of the home, mainly in its assisted-living wing. Nineteen staff members have also reported the illness.

Nine people have been hospitalized.

Marni Storey, manager of the Health Department's infectious-disease program, said she expects to see more cases before the outbreak is over.

All three deaths involved elderly residents with other underlying medical conditions, according to the Health Department. The previous deaths occurred Wednesday and Thursday.

County health officials have asked the center's residents to stay in their rooms and urged friends and family not to visit until the outbreak runs its course. Center operators have canceled all social activities.

Seattle Times staff and The Associated Press

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