Despite the deaths, business went on as usual throughout the rest of the hospital. Just a few feet from the police tape at the crime scene, people sat in the radiology-department waiting room next to a large, bubbling fish tank. She entered the building just after the shooting occurred. I could smell it, and it's sad to smell it in the city. William Maxwell, a staff member in the laboratory-medicine department, said he was a bit shaken by the shootings.
Nobody is happy.
Eric Larson, medical director for the hospital, said it was shocking to have such violence happen inside a space devoted to healing. In the past two decades, police have investigated at least three other homicides on the UW campus. Police and medical examiners said Robert Rux of West Seattle, who had been admitted to the intensive-care unit with respiratory failure, was killed by an unnecessary insulin injection. His death, which was ruled a homicide, was never solved. He told police he had hired a private detective to track down his ex-girlfriend and then shot her friend in a jealous rage.