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The teenage boys,
aged 13, 16 and 17, were taken into custody at a different
homeless encampment and a gun was recovered, Seattle police
said.
It was unclear if the teenagers were homeless.
They will be booked into a jail for minors and were facing
possible murder charges stemming from the Jan. 26 shootings at a
large homeless camp south of downtown Seattle, a police
statement said. The notorious camp is known in Seattle as "the
Jungle".
The victims suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the chest,
abdomen and back, authorities said.
Police said after the incident they believed the victims were
targeted over drugs and that two firearms were involved.
Seattle, like other West Coast cities including Portland and Los
Angeles, has been struggling with a ballooning homeless problem
and growing illegal encampments across the city.
Mayor Ed Murray has described conditions at the Jungle as
"unmanageable and out of control for almost two decades."
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in Los Angeles; Editing by Paul
Tait)
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