Last updated November 25, 2010 4:08 p.m. PT
A woman suspected of shooting another woman Wednesday in Skyway should be considered armed, paranoid and extremely dangerous, the King County Sheriff's Office says.
Thursday afternoon, the Sheriff's Office sent out photos of Ayanna A. Shamari, 51, hoping anyone who knows her whereabouts will call 911.
Deputies also want to find the van that Shamari fled in: a 1996 beige Ford Windstar van with Washington license plate 477RNZ. Shamari sometimes sells used books out of the back of the van.
King County Sheriff's Sgt. John Urquhart said the woman has mental health issues and wasn't provoked before the Wednesday evening attack.
Shamari lives in a group home in the 8500 block of South 117th Street. About 5:15 p.m. Wednesday she walked into the kitchen and starting shooting, deputies said.
A 59-year-old woman who owns the home was hit in the stomach and a second bullet grazed her head.
"Three other people were in the kitchen at the same time, including a young child," Urquhart said in a statement. "The only other injury was to a man who received cuts as he ran through a closed, sliding glass door to escape the gunfire."
Detectives believe Shamari set fire to her second floor bedroom just before the shooting or just after the attack.
Shamari is 5-foot-4 and about 110 pounds.
The Skyway shooting was the second serious attack this week by suspects with mental illness, police said.
In an unrelated incident Monday morning, police say a schizophrenic man having delusions killed another man on Capitol Hill, in view of Seattle Academy students who had been let out early because of the snow. The victim, 58-year-old Joseph M. LaMango did not appear to have time to fight off his attacker and his grocery bag was still on his arm when police found him, according to court documents.
In 2008, former P-I reporter Carol Smith wrote award-winning articles about flaws in the state's mental health system. Read those reports here.
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