Chop Suey: Inside the Chop Suey Shootings
one man was fatally shot and two others wounded during a show at Chop Suey on Saturday night. Yesterday afternoon and evening, two men, aged 25 and 18, were arrested and booked into King County Jail on charges connected to the tragedy. The 25-year-old faces felony charges, while the 18-year-old will be looking at a lower level assault charge. The violence has brought a somber note to the hiphop community's typically playful conversations, evidenced by the dialogue at last night's impromptu summit of some of Seattle's foremost local artists, promoters, and other community leaders at Moe Bar. That the gathering even occurred is an acknowledgment of how seriously the Chop Suey shooting could affect the city's music industry.Big Kountry, one of the promoters of Saturday night's show, has spent the last day almost exclusively at Harborview with the friends and families of the men who were shot; several others at the meeting have visited the hospital over the past thirty-...