Washington, Jan 23 (TIWN) One person was killed and seven others injured when a gunman opened fire in a busy downtown area of the US city Seattle, police said on Twitter, adding they were searching for suspects.

A 50-year-old woman was in critical condition at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center, and the child boy was in “very serious condition,” according to Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins. The fire department transported five patients to Harborview and two more arrived at the hospital later.  A woman in her 40s or 50s was killed in the shooting, the Seattle Times reported. She when dead when first-responders arrived on the scene and was not transported to the hospital.