Lone survivor of Seattle shooting rampage improving
Jun 8, 2012, 6:40 AM | Updated: 7:54 am
The lone wounded survivor of the Cafe Racer shootings could be out of the hospital in a few days.
Leonard Meuse has endured two surgeries, after one 45-caliber slug tore through his abdomen and another through his jaw.
His father, Raymond tells KING 5 his son is improving.
“He could sit up yesterday and talk, but it was kind of slurred. Today it was a normal talk,” said Raymond. “He was eating. Well enough to complain about the food. That’s a good sign.”
Raymond says his 46-year-old son clearly remembers the shooting and calling 911 as he was bleeding on the floor.
Meuse was the chef, working at Cafe Racer at the time of the shootings. Some have called him a hero for his actions.
“He had the presence of mind as the captain of the ship to do his job,” said Lawrence Adams, a man in the cafe during the shootings. “He just kept doing his job.”
Meuse was one of five people shot inside Cafe Racer in a shooting rampage that claimed six lives.
The man blamed for the massacre, 40-year-old Ian Stawicki, killed himself as police closed in during a manhunt following the shootings.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
