Letter likely written by Seattle gunman

SEATTLE – It is “highly probable” that a letter purportedly explaining the deaths of seven people at a Seattle rave party was written by Kyle Huff, the gunman, the Washington State Patrol said Tuesday.

That was the conclusion of a report released by the patrol’s State Crime Lab on its analysis of the one-page handwritten note, which was written on the back of a memo to tenants at Town & Country Apartments, where the 28-year-old Huff lived.

The letter was dated March 23, 2006, two days before the killings at a home in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Six young people were fatally shot, and Huff then killed himself.

The letter was found April 24, nearly a month after the killing spree.

Experts at the State Crime Lab compared the letter to writing on items known to belong to Huff, including a handwritten phone list, receipts and a job application.

“It is highly probable that the questioned letter was written by Kyle Huff,” investigators concluded in their three-page report.

Seattle police would not comment on the findings.

The letter was addressed “to Kane” – the name of Huff’s twin brother – “from Kyle,” and began by stating, “I hope that you will find this letter after the fact. Don’t let the police or FBI keep you from haveing (sic) it, this is my last wish.”

In the letter, the writer vented his rage against the rave scene.

“They’re packed in there, groping each other, having sex,” the letter said. “This hippy stuff has to end.