Seattle police arrest woman suspected in workplace shooting

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-03-10 01:39

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman suspected of shooting and critically wounding a 65-year-old man inside a Seattle parks department building was arrested at her home Friday, hours after police say she fled the scene.

The shooting prompted the city to shut down all community centers and put nearby schools in north Seattle on high alert. The woman, a parks employee, had keys to city facilities, police Deputy Chief Nick Metz said.

Police initially characterized the shooting as workplace violence. A motive hasn't been determined.

Seattle police identified the woman as 46-year-old Carolyn Piksa. The Seattle Times reported that she works as an assistant coordinator for community centers and has been a Parks and Recreation Department employee since 1986.'

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Women don't do stuff like this. Or do they*?

*Problem w/ this article is that it tends toward the usual claptrap around giving violent female offenders a pass by speculating that they're crazy and not guilty *really* for that reason. Truth is, most ppl who commit pre-meditated violent crimes are in fact nuts. You can give them any number of diagnoses, and these might actually be accurate. But that doesn't mean the murderer isn't guilty. Did they know what they were doing and understand the causal relationship between their actions and the results thereof? Yes? They're guilty.

Unless they're female, apparently.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2013-03-10 02:59