KUOW reports:

Murray said he supports the ballot measure to require background checks for all gun sales, as one response to the shootings at Seattle Pacific University and elsewhere in the city.

He noted to the reporters surrounding him, “that same week, three young black men were killed in Seattle with a fraction of media or public attention.”

Murray concluded his speech with details from the obituary of one of those victims, Dwone Anderson-Young, a young man so bright he went to kindergarten early and graduated from the University of Washington.  “And we lost him through senseless violence,” Murray said.

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