SEATTLE (AP) - Two people were wounded in a shooting Friday at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and one person was arrested, police said. The extent of the victims' injuries was not immediately known. A SWAT team was searching the downtown building for any other possible victims or shooters, police spokesman Rich Pruitt said.
"People got shot, some of our co-workers," Patti Simon said in a phone interview, her voice shaking. "I just got back from Israel and made it out of there a half hour before the rockets started."
Simon, who sells advertising for the federation's newspaper, was working on the first floor when she heard screaming, shots and what sounded like furniture crashing on the floor above.
"We heard this horrible screaming on the floor above us and shots," the 52-year-old said. "We didn't know what was happening."
Simon called up to her co-workers on the second floor, but got no answer, so she called the police and fled the building.
One person shot in the abdomen and another shot in the arm were being taken to Harborview Medical Center, KING-TV reported.
Police blocked off several city blocks to investigate.
Simon said the federation building has security.
"Somebody must have lied their way in," she said.
