Capitol Hill massacre
In a panel released by the Seattle Police Department headed by criminologist, James Alan Fox of Northwestern University, it was suggested Huff had been planning the shooting as early as February.
From the truck, he retrieved a 12-gauge Winchester 1300 Defender pump-action shotgun with a pistol grip and a .40-caliber Ruger P944 semi-automatic handgun, and several bandoliers with more than 300 rounds of ammunition for the guns.
A patrol officer nearby, Steve Leonard, heard the shots and headed to the scene, getting the address from multiple 911 dispatches.
[6][7] Following the shooting, police found that Huff's truck contained a .223-caliber Bushmaster XM15 E2S semi-automatic rifle,[4] another handgun, several more boxes of ammunition, a baseball bat, and a machete.
[citation needed] Many who attended the Capitol Hill Arts Center event learned of the shooting the next morning via local "rave" online forums, some of which included first-hand accounts from survivors.
Sanford Brown and other local clergy, held an interfaith prayer service[9] at the site of the mass murder.
Deceased Injured Kyle Aaron Huff (September 22, 1977 – March 25, 2006) was identified as the shooter in the morning massacre.
[22] They were seized by the police in Whitefish after he pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor mischief charge in the moose incident.
On February 1, 2006, someone with the email address kylehuff23@hotmail.com asked on an internet message board run by local raver Groovinkim when the next rave was, because he'd never been to one.
Arguments in favor of authenticity included the fact that the letter was written on stationery from the apartment complex where the Huff brothers lived and matched several known samples of the killer's writing, according to crime lab experts.
[25] The Stranger, an alternative weekly, earlier claimed that the handwriting on the letter appeared to be identical to samples from a job application of Huff's that the periodical had obtained.
Additionally, in the weeks leading up to the massacre, he had attempted to start dating a woman, sending her flowers and calling leaving her messages but she said he was 'not her type'.
[28] While Seattle and the Pacific Northwest in the past half-century have had numerous serial killers—most notoriously Ted Bundy, "Green River Killer" Gary Ridgway, and Robert Lee Yates—mass murder is not as common, although the area has had several of them.
[29] In the wake of the killings, The Seattle Times, invoking the drugs and alcohol the victims apparently enjoyed that night, immediately called for tighter regulation of the late-night activities of teenagers and young adults, and for the city's all-ages dance rules to be "thoroughly re-examined and re-tooled.
Several city council members spoke up against the "quick fix" mentality inherent in the Times editorial; council member Peter Steinbrueck added he was "really incredulous over young teenaged girls going out all night unsupervised and mixing with much older people," but didn't see that as an issue over the nature of the place where they had socialized.
[2] As it happens, the killings occurred only days before Mayor Nickels was to announce the city's support for the non-profit VERA project (which puts on all-ages shows) moving into a new location at Seattle Center,[32] so that at the time of the killings all-ages events were more than routinely on the minds of city leaders, and in a more than typically positive light.
[33] In the course of the exchanges in the wake of the murders, musician and activist Ben Shroeter wrote that the AADO made possible legitimate, well-run dances, instead of the sometimes very drug-ridden underground events that had illegally occurred in the TDO era.
