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Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Patricia Murphy. Here are today's

top stories. It's Friday, September 6th.

Local leaders are marking the death of a Seattle resident killed this morning during a protest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

A. Shanur Aigy graduated in 2024 from the University of Washington, where she majored in psychology.

UW President Anamari Koussa says she was a peer mentor and provided a positive influence in the lives of new students. U.S. Senator Patty Murray

says Aegee was reportedly peacefully protesting against illegal settlement activity in the West Bank.

Murray said in a statement, the government of Israel must deliver answers

immediately and hold the perpetrators of this killing accountable. U.S. Representative Pramila

Jayapal called the killing a terrible tragedy and said the Israeli government has done nothing

to stop settler expansion and settler violence. Eige was a dual U.S. and Turkish citizen.

She had reportedly traveled to the region just last week.

Seattle's unarmed crisis responders are staffing up as they prepare to answer calls citywide.

Amy Radle has more on that story.

911 dispatchers have been sending Seattle's care team to non-criminal calls alongside police in the downtown for almost a year.

The unit's manager, Katrana Hernandez, says in the next six months,

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