SEATTLE, WA — An especially violent weekend in Puget Sound began early Saturday morning with a deadly police shooting outside an immigration detention center in Tacoma — but before the weekend was over, six more people would die in a variety violent incidents.

At around 4 a.m. Saturday, Tacoma police went to the Northwest Detention Center on a report of a man with a gun. They found Willem Van Spronsen, 69, of Vashon Island, holding a rifle and lobbing incendiary devices at vehicles at the Northwest Detention Center. After a brief verbal exchange, the officers opened fire and killed Van Spronsen. He left behind a manifesto claiming to be acting against fascism. Two more people died on Saturday in Tacoma in separate incidents along SR 16. The first happened just before 1 a.m. Saturday. William Isakson, 66, died after he drove onto SR 16 from 9th Street and crashed into a jersey barrier, according to Washington State Patrol. At around 4 p.m., a woman jumped off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and died, police said.



About two hours after Van Spronsen was killed, police in Kirkland shot and killed a man who was reportedly threatening an 18-month-old boy. The shooting happened in a wooded area near I-405. At around 11:15 a.m., police responded to Luther Burbank Park on Mercer Island on a report of gunfire. They found a man and a woman with gunshot wounds in a car, and they later died at Harborview. Police could not immediately confirm that it was a murder-suicide, but did say that no other people were involved in the shooting. It was Mercer Island's first gun homicide in more than a decade, police said.



In Seattle, two violent incidents happened in the early morning hours on Sunday. Near 2 a.m., a fight broke out in a large crowd gathered near Mercer Street and 2nd Avenue North at the Seattle Center. Just as police arrived, a man in the crowd shot and wounded another man. The crowd then began vandalizing cars and surrounded the officers. The victim was later transported to Harborview with life-threatening injuries and the suspected shooter was arrested walking near the scene.

At 2:45 a.m., a 25-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill. She later died at Harborview, and her killer was not immediately caught.