Bellevue Woman Killed in Seattle Shooting Rampage Identified

A Bellevue woman killed in a carjacking during a rampage by a Seattle man that took the lives of five people was identified by multiple news sources Wednesday as Gloria Koch Leonidas.

According to the Capitol Hill Seattle Blog, her daughters' Seattle-area school sent home a notice identifying her as the sixth victim in the shootings, which took place in two different locations in Seattle.

Seattle police told the Seattle Times that the gunman was Ian Lee Stawicki, 40, of Seattle, who turned his gun on himself when he was confronted by police in West Seattle. He died Wednesday night.

Leonidas' husband, Tom Leonidas, declined to talk to the Seattle Times at length about his wife, saying that the family was not ready to talk.

According to her LinkedIn account, Leonidas worked in sales for Electrical Reps West. She was also active in the community and in 2010, served on the Board of Trustees for the Evergreen Healthcare Foundation, the nonprofit fundraising organization for Evergreen Healthcare, according to the foundation's 2010 report.

Leonidas was the sixth person shot during a shooting spree which started at 11 a.m. Wednesday at at Cafe Racer, at 5828 Roosevelt Way NE in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood. 

Four of the people at Cafe Racer died of gunshot wounds during that shooting and one more was critically wounded.

Within an hour of that shooting, Leonidas was shot and killed, and her Mercedes SUV taken from a parking lot at Eighth Avenue and Seneca Street near Town Hall in Seattle's First Hiill neighborhood. Witnesses told KIRO that bystanders attempted to perform CPR on her after she was shot in the head.

The gunman dumped the SUV in West Seattle and then shot himself in the head after he was spotted by an officer, Seattle police told reporters Wednesday.

Seattle police told reporters that investigators connected the two shootings by witness descriptions of an item on his person that was spotted in both locations.