Violence flared across the Puget Sound region on the hottest day of the year so far, including in downtown Seattle, where two people were killed.
In the heart of the city, a shooting and a stabbing around 10 p.m. Wednesday left a teenager and a man dead. Earlier, at a Pierce County park, gunshots fired in a dispute between groups struck seven people, including five teens.
The Seattle attacks appeared unrelated, but they occurred within blocks of each other and came less than two weeks after a shooting that killed three people in Pioneer Square, threatening to raise perennial concerns about summer bloodshed…