Seattle officers wounded in shooting ID’d

SEATTLE — The Seattle police officer who remains in the hospital after Thursday’s downtown shooting was identified by a law-enforcement source as Hudson Kang.

Kang, 30, is in Harborview Medical Center in serious condition. The hospital said his condition was “improving” Friday afternoon.

A female officer who was saved from serious wounds by her Kevlar vest was identified as Elizabeth Kennedy, 42, the source said.

Seattle police declined to confirm the names.

Kennedy was treated at Harborview on Thursday and released.

Police have said both have been with the department for about three years.

The two officers were among four injured Thursday while responding to an armed robbery. The other officers, both males, have not been identified. One of those officers suffered a minor bullet wound to the hand and the other was hit over the head with a bottle, police said.

Two suspects were arrested and a third — a 19-year-old man — was killed, police said. The suspect who was killed was identified Friday as Damarius Butts, who died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A Seattle Police Department patrol car camera captured the suspect fleeing into a loading dock with officers in pursuit, followed by an audible exchange of gunfire between the suspect and police on Thursday.