UPDATE: Woman shot south of West Seattle Junction, now identified

UPDATE Oct 2nd

The King County Coroner has identified the woman shot Tuesday afternoon as Tamara Towers Parry 57. She died from multiple gunshot wounds. The Seattle Police Blotter stated today: “The investigation revealed that two subjects arrived at the home to serve paperwork on a 57-year-old resident. The resident left the house and presented a shotgun. One of the subjects, a 40-year-old man, fired his pistol and shot the woman in the upper body. The woman succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to a Article in the UW Daily On January 20, Towers Parry was part of the mob that stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. She graduated from UW with a medical degree in 1994. Towers Parry posted a video on TikTok, which was later deleted, that was filmed in Washington DC that day.

Original post from October 1st

Seattle police responded to 911 calls to a home in the 4400 block of SW Hudson Street, south of the West Seattle intersection, and to reports of a shooting just after 1 p.m.

According to Detective Brian Pritchard, public information officer on scene, a 57-year-old woman was shot and sustained multiple injuries. When emergency services arrived, she was pronounced dead at the scene.

He said three people were involved and that the investigation was now in the hands of homicide detectives.

One neighbor said she heard “two really loud gunshots” at the time, and another said the home's resident had previously displayed a large flag in front of the house.

Reporters at the scene asked if it was an ongoing eviction, but police did not confirm this.