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• Written/Directed by Scott Schaefer
• Voiceover by Henry Dardenne

SEATAC – Carbon monoxide poisoning caused nine people to be rushed to the hospital Thursday night, including three police officers assisting other victims.

King County Sheriff’s spokesman John Urquhart said deputies responded to reports of a carbon monoxide leak at a home in the 4800 block of South 172nd before 9pm. They arrived to find six people who had already become sick from the gas.

Deputies learned the situation started when the driver of a taxi cab pulled into the home’s garage and left it running for an undetermined amount of time, allowing the gas to spread through the house.

A man and a woman who were inside at the time were overcome by the carbon monoxide within minutes and passed out. A third person who entered a house also passed out.

A short time later a woman and her two children arrived at the home and found the three unconscious. She and her children quickly fled the house and called 911.

While trying to help the residents, three SeaTac police officers also began to feel ill. The officers, the three unconscious people and the 911 caller and her children were all taken to the hospital.

Seven victims were taken to Harborview Medical Center and the rest were taken to Virginia Mason Medical Center. Their names are not known.

“We don’t know for sure, but it certainly looks like the three people in the house - most likely live there. The woman who came in a little later with her two kids lives in a house behind this residence,” Urquhart said.

Three of the victims are said to be in critical condition. All of the officers are said to be in satisfactory condition.

It is not known why the cab was left running in the garage, but investigators do not suspect foul play.

SOURCE:

• KOMO News

Remember back in 2005 when Ronald Whitehead, 61, was fatally shot near SeaTac while driving to work?

The killing looked like a carjacking, and Whitehead’s wife then appealed for the murderer to turn themselves in?

Turned out that the victim’s wife, Velma Ogden-Whitehead, 50, was actually the mastermind behind her husband’s slaying, hiring a friend of her son’s to hide in her husband’s trunk.

This morning, Ogden-Whitehead sobbed in court as she begged for forgiveness, but her cries were summarily rejected by a judge who called her “self defense” argument a lie.

Ogden-Whitehead attempted to justify the killing as her reaction to sexual and physical abuse from her husband of ten years. Not surprisingly, Judge Steven Gonzalez didn’t fall for this defense, telling her:

“You are the perpetrator, not the victim you claim to be. Your claims of abuse and suffering are hollow.”

The judge later sentenced her to 22 years in prison.

Full story from The Seattle Times is here.

SEATAC – The cause of a four-alarm blaze that destroyed the vacant Angle Lake School on Saturday won’t be known for two or three more days, said Terri-Ann Betancourt, a spokeswoman for the Port of Seattle, which owns the property.

A crane will be brought to the site early in the week to aid in the investigation.

The building, in the 19200 block of 28th Avenue South, erupted in flames shortly before 6 pm Saturday, requiring a massive response by local firefighters.

Crews from Tukwila, Burien, Kent, the Port of Seattle and King County Fire District 20 joined firefighters in SeaTac to battle the blaze.

The roof of the builiding collapsed about 30 minutes after the first units arrived.

The Port of Seattle bought the property a few years ago with plans to demolish the building and use the land for airport operations,” said Betancourt.

Neighbors say the building has been boarded up for several years.

SOURCE:

• Seattle P-I

Sometimes it’s fun to read the Craigslist “Missed Connections” and follow the fascinating storylines of all our rascally neighboring humanoids, and this last week was no exception.

We first found this ad on May 28th on seattle-tacoma craigslist > south king > missed connections:

How was your trip to Maui??? - w4m - 25 (SeaTac)

We met at at an airport parking place in Seatac on May 19th.

I was going to Disneyland and you were going to Maui.

You helped my daughter and I out with our luggage.

If you remember me, please let me know!

Then, a few days later, came this rather interesting rebuttal:

Hi,

You posted this for my husband.

His trip to Maui went fine, I was a day late due to a conference.

Why do you want to know how his trip went?

You must be the lady he mentioned when we were in Hilo.

He said you have a nice looking daughter and thought that you may have adopted her.

He said you stared at him plenty.

Mrs. Jake B.