Seattle shooting suspect identified

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Firefighters remove a victim from the scene of a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on June 5. (Joshua Trujillo / AP)

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People embrace at Seattle Pacific University on June 5 after a gunman opened fire inside an engineering building on campus. (Joshua Trujillo / Associated Press)

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A Seattle police SWAT team member at Seattle Pacific University after a fatal shooting on campus. (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

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Students and faculty pray together June 5 after a shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University. (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

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Cars gather near the site of the shooting at Seattle Pacific University on June 5. (Marcus Yam / Associated Press)

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Bomb squad officers search a white pickup truck parked outside Otto Miller Hall at Seattle Pacific University after the shooting June 5. (Marcus Yam / Associated Press)

By Maria L. La GangaStaff Writer

June 5, 2014 11:47 PM PT

SEATTLE -- The gunman suspected of killing one and wounding several others during an afternoon rampage on the campus of Seattle Pacific University was booked into King County jail Thursday night, the Seattle Police Department said in a late Twitter feed, identifying the man as 26-year-old Aaron R. Ybarra.

Ybarra allegedly brought a shotgun, extra ammunition and a knife to the Queen Anne Hill campus shortly before 3:30 p.m., police said during a briefing earlier in the day. On entering Otto Miller Hall, he apparently opened fire, shooting three students at the Christian school.

When he stopped to reload the shotgun, police said, a student security guard sprayed him with pepper spray and subdued him until police arrived.

A spokeswoman from Harborview Medical Center said in a late-night e-mail that of the four victims of the shooting who were brought to the hospital, only two remain. A woman in her 20s is in critical condition in intensive care after five hours of surgery. A 24-year-old man remains hospitalized in satisfactory condition.

A 22-year-old man was treated and released from the hospital earlier in the evening. And a 19-year-old man who was taken to the medical center in critical condition died shortly after arrival.

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Maria L. La Ganga

Maria L. La Ganga is the deputy managing editor for California and Metro, overseeing the Los Angeles Times’ largest editorial department. She joined The Times in 1981 as an academic intern, splitting her time between the former Metro section and National Dragster, the official publication of the National Hot Rod Assn. She has served as Seattle bureau chief, San Francisco bureau chief, edited in the Business section and pitched in on six presidential elections, five for The Times and one for the Guardian. La Ganga left The Times in 2015 and returned in 2018 after a brief hiatus during which she wrote for the Guardian and the Idaho Statesman. She was named city editor in 2022 and promoted to her current role in 2024. La Ganga graduated from Granada Hills High School in the San Fernando Valley and Cal State Northridge, where she studied English literature and journalism.

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