March 8

Update: Suspect arrested. Green Lake-area schools, all community centers being locked down after shooting

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Update: SPD: At approximately 4:49 p.m. Seattle Police officers located and arrested the suspect in south King County.

Developing: Police are searching for 46-year-old Carolyn Piksa in connection with this case. (Image courtesy SPD) |

All Seattle Parks and Recreation facilities and parks are closed this afternoon; shooting suspect has keys to them.

So is North Seattle Community College.

Seattle Times is updating here.

Police are searching for a Parks and Recreation Department employee after she allegedly shot a man in the chest at a department maintenance building north of Green Lake.

The victim, 65-year-old Bill Keller, was shot just before 2 p.m. at the building at North 82nd Street and Densmore Avenue North, police said. He is at Harborview Medical Center in critical but stable condition, according to police.

Keller is the executive director of the Associated Recreation Council (ARC), a non-profit that runs the city’s community centers. ARC is based in the building where the shooting took place.

The suspect has been identified as Carolyn “Zoom” Piksa, 47 46, a Parks Department employee since 1986. Police say she may have keys to all of the city’s community centers, so all have been locked down.

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Various news organizations and fire and police are responding to a reported shooting just north of Green Lake.

The shooting may have occurred in a Seattle Parks and Recreation office, our news partner The Seattle Times is reporting.

There are unconfirmed reports that the suspect may be an employee of the Parks Department. Police are looking for her near the Bitter Lake Community Center.

The shooter is described as a white female, 47, with blue stocking cap and beige or Army green jacket. She may be driving a dark-colored SUV.

Police say Broadview-Thompson School, Bagley Elementary and Wilson Pacific are in shelter in place during the search for the shooter.

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A 70 -65-year-old man is reported injured, and officers are looking for a woman with a gun. Schools and the Green Lake Community Center locked down. Developing.

The incident occurred at Northeast 80th Street and Densmore Avenue North, two blocks north of the lake.

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