Witness: Gas Container Discovered After Gay Nightclub Arson

[freeplessinseattle]

Source: king 5 news seattle

Seattle police continue to investigate an arson at a popular gay nightclub. According to detectives, a supect or suspects doused a staircase at Neighbours in Capitol Hill with gasoline and lit it on fire.

"A minute more and you could've had disaster," said Shaun Kinttel.

Knittel runs Social Outreach Seattle and is a regular at Neighbours. He recorded video of the moment he and club managment discovered what they estimate to be a liter of gasoline at the top of the staircase.

"About 15 minutes after midnight we started smelling this gas everywhere," said Christopher D'Agostino.

Nearly 700 customers evacuated into a nearby alley, completely uninjured. Many left their bags and coats in the coat check room, and returned Wednesday to retrieve them, amazed that the fire didn't consume the building.

Read more: http://www.king5.com/news/crime/Police-search-for-suspect-in-Capitol-Hill-arson-238366961.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Mass murderer at large. 700 people is a lot of people.

Thank goodness they did not die, but somebody was willing to kill them. Night club fires are extremely serious. 242 died in Brazil in 2013 in one fire. 492 died at the Coconut Grove in Boston.

[Rhythm]

4. heck... 100 died in 2003 at a nightclub in Rhode Island, and that was an accident!

It was an act of dumb on the part of the band and the pyrotechnic crew -- and not an act of malice.
But 100 died, and another 200 were injured.

[nolabear]

2. I am so pissed about this. I could have had friends in there.

If the bastard had succeeded we'd have had another horrifying tragedy in the national news. The Hill is angry and nervous, which I suppose is exactly what the bastard wants. I hope they catch whoever did it and send him/her off for a long damned time.

[eggplant]

3. Assholes who do shit like this don't keep it to themselves.

Hopefully someone will rat him out for the inevitable reward money. Soon, please.

[Cha]

5. Thank Goodness no one was hurt!

I hope they catch the murderous assholes who lit it.

[xfundy]

6. How much ya wanna bet....

... there's "Christian Love™" involved?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Or latent homosexuals, or thuggish twerps who hit on women all the time

Latent homosexuals fearful of their own sexuality, threatened like Rush Limbaugh, he of four marriages, threatened by the imminent collapse of the "sanctity" of their own marriages.

Thuggish twerps who hit on women all the time and are deathly afraid that they might get hit on by a gay in the same brutish way as they treat women.

Ever notice how the people who beat up gays do so in groups and go after weaker spindly types instead of attacking a 250 pound gay biker alone?

[blkmusclmachine]

8. WWJM

Who
Would
Jesus
Murder

[MADem]

9. I hope they get some leads off the video.

Surveillance cameras line the area leading to the staircase, which is set in an area of the club with limited access. According to Knittel, management will scour the video for a suspect.