Victim In Weekend Seattle Shooting Identified

SEATTLE, WA - The 30-year-old man who died after a shooting in the Highland Park neighborhood has been identified as Micaiah Kotthoff. The King County Medical Examiner's office said Kotthoff died of a single gunshot wound to the head.

Kotthoff was shot around 3:30 p.m. Saturday along the 8400 block of 1st Avenue South, a stretch of road that runs along SR 509 near the South Park neighborhood.

Witnesses told Seattle police that there was a disturbance, and then a car fled the scene. Kotthoff was left lying along the road after the car left the scene.

This is the 14th homicide in Seattle so far in 2018. Kotthoff's killing happened about one week after a man was found stabbed to death at an intersection in the Delridge neighborhood - just up the hill from where Kotthoff was killed.

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