Seattle, WA
Late-Game RSL Magic Yet Again Finds Point at Seattle | Real Salt Lake
SEATTLE, Wash. (Wednesday, May 29, 2024) – Real Salt Lake (8-2-6 / 30 points / 1st West) crafted another magical late-game comeback with a 90+9 equalizer from All-Star hopeful **Andrés Gómez** in the final minute of stoppage time. Refusing to lose, the performance is not only an encore to the Claret-and-Cobalt’s barnstorming three-goal comeback and stoppage-time equalizer just four days earlier in Dallas, but the draw extends Real’s historic unbeaten streak to a staggering 12 matches.
Watch / Listen to RSL Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni, GK Gavin Beavers, AM Diego Luna and FW Andrés Gómez commentary following 1-1 comeback at Seattle Sounders on Wed., May 29, 2024
Real Salt Lake was the clear aggressor on a rainy night along the Puget Sound as both teams looked to establish an early presence, intercepting four balls in Seattle territory within the first five minutes of play. The fourth saw **Diego Luna** cleverly pick off Sounders in their buildup, knifing towards goal before he was taken down to earn an early penalty kick – but the call was reversed to a free kick on the edge of the box following review.
Real’s 19-year-old goal ‘keeper **Gavin Beavers** was busy in the heart of the first 45, repeatedly coming off his line to punch danger away. His finest moment of work came in the 35th minute as Seattle burst forward, putting together a five-pass combination that culminated with an Obed Vargas one-time rocket from distance. Barreling towards the top corner, Beavers dove at full extension to his left, getting a glove on the strike to send it wide. Beavers then stepped up for an encore just four minutes later, denying a Cristian Roldan blast from inside the box to keep his team level.
RSL nearly jumped out to a lead in the 41st minute as its high pressing defense once again converted into attack. Hounding Seattle defenders as they passed along the back line, **Anderson Julio** jumped the passing lane and, noticing MLS veteran Stefan Frei was off his line, ripped a shot from more than 30 yards that went just wide of the post. Neither team could break through, however, heading to the locker rooms with a fresh scoreboard – the two sides sharing similar possession, expected goals, shots on target and passing accuracy.
Coming out for the second half, Seattle created a prime chance almost immediately. As a long ball was played into the RSL defensive zone, it fell to the feet of Raúl Ruidíaz. He played to Jordan Morris on the edge of the box who then held up play for the overlapping run of Albert Rusnak. Laying it off at point-blank range, Rusnak’s shot was blocked by a heroic last-second intervention by tonight’s RSL Captain, Justen Glad.
Beavers once again played the role of hero in the 66th minute, making another full-extension save on yet another outside-the-box strike from Sounders. Despite the collection of impressive saves, Beavers would lose his clean sheet – and a 257-minute shutout streak dating back to March 9 in MLS action – in the 68th minute, when Rusnák gave Seattle a 1-0 lead. Standing over the ball for a free kick from a deep position on the right side, Rusnák faked as though he was whipping in a cross to his teammates at the far post but instead ripped a low-driven shot at Beaver’s near post. Diving to get a glove on it, the pace and power was too much as it trickled into the net.
MLS MVP candidate and usual RSL Captain **Chicho Arango**, in his first substitute appearance this MLS season, injected life into the Claret-and-Cobalt in the 81st minute. Positioned in a pocket between defenders on the right side of the midfield, he received the lay-off from Gómez and promptly smashed it at the near post from distance with his famed right foot, nearly leveling the match aside from a good save by Frei. Again in the first minute of stoppage time, RSL had a primetime chance for an equalizer. As Brayan Vera took a free kick from the left side of the Seattle zone, his cross bounced around the traffic of the box before falling right to the feet of **Fidel Barajas**. Shooting from point-blank range with his right foot, Frei saved it back into play for Barajas again, this time sending it over the bar with his left.
Coming directly off a Seattle dagger that was called back for a foul, Real Salt Lake threw themselves forward with the final whistle looming to net a shocking last-minute equalizer. Vera controlled the ball in the RSL half with all nine of his outfield teammates charging forward. He floated a beautiful ball all the way into the box as **Matt Crooks** used his 6’6’’ frame to elevate and win the header. Arango then leapt forward as it floated across the box, heading it left to the feet of his Columbian compatriot Gómez for the one-time shot. The first was deflected, but Gómez wouldn’t be denied as it came back to him for the clinical nutmeg finish.
First-place RSL improves to three wins and five draws against just one loss away from home this season, last losing a road match in the 2024 MLS opener back on Feb. 21 at Miami. Tonight’s RSL comeback marks the fifth time the Claret-and-Cobalt have come from behind this season to earn 11 of its 30 points: 2-1 win at Vancouver on March 23, a 3-1 win vs. St. Louis on March 30, a 5-3 home win over Colorado, last week’s 3-3 draw at Dallas and tonight’s last-minute equalizer. Arango was shut out from finding the scoresheet for just the fifth time in 16 matches this season, but remains tied for the MLS Golden Boot lead with his 13 goals and 8 assists.
Off to the best start in Club history with 30 points from 16 matches (exceeding both 2016 and 2014), RSL has ascended to the top of the Western Conference for its latest first-place bragging rights in the calendar since April 30, 2016, and the latest solo No. 1 in the West since August 2013. This week’s back-to-back road contests precede Saturday’s home match against Austin FC, just the fourth of four America First Field matches for RSL from mid-April to mid-June, the Claret-and-Cobalt playing eight of 12 away from home during that span, including the trip to Dallas and tonight at Seattle. RSL will then enjoy a much-needed June 8 international bye weekend prior to again traveling to Montreal and Kansas City on June 15/19 to wrap up the circuitous gauntlet.
RSL 1 : 1 at SEA
GOAL-SCORING SUMMARY:
SEA – 68’ – Albert Rusnák (Unassisted): Standing over the ball for a free kick from a deep position on the right side, Rusnák faked as though he was whipping in a cross to his teammates at the far post but instead ripped a low-driven shot at Beaver’s near post. Diving to get a glove on it, the pace and power was too much as it trickled into the net.
RSL – 90+9’ – Andrés Gómez (Unassisted): Brayan Vera controlled the ball in the RSL half with all nine of his outfield teammates charging forward. He floated a beautiful ball all the way into the box as Matt Crooks used his 6’6’’ frame to elevate and win the header. Arango then leapt forward as it floated across the box, heading it left to the feet of his Columbian compatriot Gomez for the one-time shot. The first was deflected, but Gomez wouldn’t be denied as it came back to him for the clinical nutmeg finish.
NOTES FROM RSL 1 : 1 @ SEA
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Andrés Gómez’s 90+9 equalizing goal is the latest equalizer in Real Salt Lake’s 630-match history.
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The late equalizer marks the third consecutive comeback for RSL, earning five points from the stretch (5-3 vs. Colorado, 3-3 @ Dallas, 1-1 @ Seattle).. The three matches have seen RSL score five goals in the final six minutes of play plus stoppage time.
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30 points through 16 matches in the best-ever start for Real Salt Lake, surpassing both 2016 and 2014.
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Nelson Palacio earned his first start with RSL since the Feb. 21 opener at Miami, following Saturday’s performance in Dallas that saw him score his first-ever RSL goal, a 90+8 stoppage-time equalizer.
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Captain Chicho Arango started on the bench for the first time this MLS season in the midst of a three-game week, subbing on in the 58th minute for an injured Anderson Julio to provide a much-needed spark.
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19-year-old Gavin Beavers earns his fourth start of the MLS season for RSL, finishing 360 minutes of play with only three goals allowed and 15 saves, with a 257-minute shutout streak from March 9 to May 29 across matches against Colorado at home, Chicago away, and both May matches against Seattle.
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RSL finishes the season series with Seattle on top, earning a win and a draw (4 pts.) from the two matches with a 3-1 goal differential.
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The active 12-game MLS unbeaten run is tied for the second-longest single-season streak and the Club’s fourth-longest overall in RSL’s 20-season history, exceeding last year’s 11-game streak across three competitions, as well as a 16-game run from 2013 into 2014, and a Club-record 18-game unbeaten streak from July 2010 to April 2011. The eight consecutive matches unbeaten away is the second-longest streak in Club history.
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For the first time ever, RSL now owns back-to-back seasons with unbeaten runs of nine games or longer … With three more win/draw results against Austin Saturday and at Montreal / Kansas City in mid-June, RSL would establish a new single-season unbeaten streak record (14 games in 2010).
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Tonight, MF Emeka Eneli played the full 90 once again (1420 minutes of a possible 1440) after he was subbed out for the first time this season in the 70th minute on Saturday in Dallas, ending his “Iron Man” streak … Eneli and FW Chicho Arango (1355 min.) have played nearly every minute of the Club’s 16-game MLS season so far in 2024, with DF Andrew Brody (1210) also appearing in every match.
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Three players have appeared in 15 league games, missing just one game this year – Anderson Julio, Braian Ojeda and Andrés Gómez – while Justen Glad, Matt Crooks, Diego Luna and Fidel Barajas have each appeared in 14 of 16 MLS contests thus far, finishing off a heavily-congested month Saturday against Austin.
LINEUPS:
Real Salt Lake (4-2-3-1): Gavin Beavers; Philip Quinton (Andrew Brody, 83’); Bryan Oviedo (Alex Katranis, 83’); Justen Glad ©; Brayan Vera; Emeka Eneli; Nelson Palacio (Braian Ojeda, 64’); Andrés Gómez; Maikel Chang (Matt Crooks, 34’); Diego Luna (Fidel Barajas, 64’); Anderson Julio (Chicho Arango, 58’)
Subs not used: Zac MacMath, Bertin Jacquesson
Seattle Sounders (4-2-3-1): Stefan Frei; Alex Roldan; Nouhou; Yeimar; Jackson Ragen; Obed Vargas; João Paulo (Paul Rothrock, 90+3’); Cristian Roldan (Reed Baker-Whiting, 74’); Albert Rusnák; Jordan Morris (Joshua Atencio, 83’); Raúl Ruidíaz (Danny Musovski, 83’)
Subs not used: Andrew Thomas, Danny Leyva, Dylan Teves, Sota Kitahara, Cody Baker
Stats Summary: SEA / RSL
Shots: 17 / 19
Shots on Goal: 5 / 4
Saves: 3 / 4
Corner Kicks: 11 / 4
Fouls: 11 / 13
MISCONDUCT SUMMARY:
RSL: Bryan Oviedo (Caution – 67’)
RSL: Matt Crooks (Caution – 75’)
SEA: Obed Vargas (Caution – 87’)
SEA: Reed Baker-Whiting (Caution – 90+4’)
Seattle, WA
Victim identified in deadly Seattle beer garden shooting on Lake City Way; suspect sought
SEATTLE — A north Seattle community is mourning the loss of a 25-year-old beer garden employee who was killed while closing the business Friday night.
Loved ones identified the victim as Quusaa Margarsa, known to many as “Q.” Seattle police are searching for the suspect but have not released details about the circumstances surrounding the killing, including whether investigators believe it was a robbery gone wrong or a targeted attack.
Police said Margarsa was working at The Growler Guys on Lake City Way NE on Friday night when he was killed. A co-worker discovered him the next morning.
“I want to know why. I think we all want to know why. What was the reasoning?” said Coreena Richards, a childhood friend of Margarsa.
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Throughout the weekend, friends, family members, and customers stopped by the north Seattle beer garden to leave flowers, candles, and messages at a growing memorial honoring Margarsa.
“Amazing, one of one — you’re never going to meet anybody like him,” Richards said.
Margarsa, a graduate of Nathan Hale High School, was a member of the school’s 2017 championship basketball team, according to the school’s alumni association. Friends described him as a “gentle soul” who was full of humor.
“He’s funny as hell. He was the life of the party. Very sweet, very kind,” Richards said.
Family members said Margarsa was preparing to celebrate his 26th birthday later this month and had been planning a birthday trip. Instead, his life was cut short while he was closing the beer garden where he worked. Police said Margarsa died of apparent gunshot wounds.
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“He was very sweet, very nice — a young guy with his whole life ahead of him. Very sad,” said Robert Bishop, a customer at The Growler Guys.
Days after the killing, customers continued to visit the memorial site, lighting candles and calling for answers as detectives searched for whoever was responsible.
“I’ve been on social media asking everybody, because it’s one thing for a mom to find out on Mother’s Day,” Bishop said. “Everybody in the neighborhood should be up in arms about this.”
As investigators work to solve what police say is Seattle’s 12th homicide of 2026, authorities have not said whether the attack was random or targeted. Police also have not said whether surveillance cameras at the business captured images of the suspect.
“You got nothing out of it. You gained nothing from this,” Richards said. “They took somebody very, very important to the people who knew him, loved him, and cared for him.”
Seattle police said the circumstances surrounding the killing remain under investigation. Anyone with information is urged to contact the department’s violent crimes tip line at 206-233-5000.
I have always been in love with cities. I joke with friends that I have crushes on cities the way they have crushes on good-looking strangers. Sometimes—as with Paris and London—my unrequited crush meant finding an excuse to move there. With Seattle, however, that initial attraction grew into a long-term relationship.
Liz Dunn
Phot by TRAVIS GILLETT
I arrived here as a “tech baby,” coming from Canada to work at Microsoft as a college intern. For a long time, I felt as though I were living in a bubble—until I realized I could pivot my career and work in and on the city I’d come to call home. Through my company, Dunn & Hobbes, I’ve done just that, spending more than 25 years building and renovating spaces for retail, restaurants, and creative work. I love old buildings—but what I love more is what happens inside and around them. I love making space for creative people and then watching them fully inhabit those places and thrive. I also love how a collection of structures on a block can become an economic and artistic ecosystem.
Working in real estate is not just about making deals—you’re crafting pieces of the city, and that comes with both impact and responsibility.
Small businesses are the heart and soul of any neighborhood. Research shows that locally owned businesses generate a much higher multiplier effect in the regional economy than national chains. Beyond economics, the independent shops, restaurants, and designers that comprise the core fabric of a city are the secret sauce that makes it feel unique.
Nowhere is that more evident than Capitol Hill’s Pike/Pine corridor, where I’ve conducted most of my work and lived out large chunks of my adult life. During the past 25 years, it has become a case study in what happens when you preserve character and invest in small business. The area was once filled with old auto-row buildings that had fallen into disuse. Instead of wiping the slate clean, local developers, including me, saw an opportunity for creative reuse. Those buildings turned out to be perfectly scaled for independent retailers and restaurants, creating a unique critical mass that offers a popular destination for locals and tourists alike.
What makes Pike/Pine special is its texture and grit—the layered history you feel in both the physical architecture and the spirit of the shops and restaurants. A large percentage of businesses are owned by members of the LGBTQ+ community, women, immigrants, and people of color. The density of independent retailers and studios—and the inclusive community that supports them—creates omething you can’t replicate with a formula. It evolved over decades, shaped by artists, musicians, designers and small entrepreneurs willing to take risks and plant their flags.
Today, neighborhoods like Pike/Pine face challenges that threaten the tightly woven ecosystem that makes them thrive. There’s a difference between gritty and too gritty, and during the past six years, it’s become harder to attract people. Foot traffic in neighborhood retail districts is dropping, even as downtown begins to recover with tourism. Small businesses are dealing with crushing cost pressures, many tied to public safety concerns and well-intentioned policies with unintended consequences. Public safety has been the elephant in the room—though I do believe we are starting to see improvements. At the same time, our habits have changed. Seattleites have been hibernating, whether because of repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic or the convenience of delivery apps, streaming, and gaming.
And yet, people still deeply crave connection.
That’s why what’s happening in Pike/Pine right now is inspiring and hopeful. Many of the people who helped shape the neighborhood are still here, investing their time, money, and creativity because they care deeply about its future. We’re doubling down on what makes it special—art walks, a slate of new murals, the On The Block street fair, and Capitol Hill Block Party—all invitations for the community to come back out and re-engage.
This spring, on Saturday, May 16th, we’re launching something new: the Pike/Pine Spring Fashion Walk and Social. It’s designed to be an annual celebration that stretches across the neighborhood, anchored by a collection of activations at Melrose Market, and a runway show on the “catwalk” at Chophouse Row that will include Seattle fashion apparel leaders Glasswing, JackStraw, the Refind, the Finerie, and Flora and Henri. Neighborhood-based designer and brand activations up and down the corridor will include open studios, DJs, wine tastings, in-store pop-ups, and involvement from local college students—bringing in the next generation of designers and entrepreneurs. One of the goals is to remind everyone that Seattle still has amazing fashion “game,” offering a scene that is just as creative and diverse as anything you might find in New York or LA. At its core, this event is not about shopping. It’s about creating a reason for people to come together, to reconnect, and to experience the neighborhood as a shared space.
Because that’s the point. Cities work best when we show up—for them and for each other. Seattle’s culture is not something that exists just for us to consume; we are all participants in shaping it. So, my call to action is simple: come out. Walk around and meet your neighbors. Engage in what’s happening. It feels good—and it does good.
SEATTLE — Memorials are growing outside popular beer garden The Growler Guys in North Seattle, as friends and family honor the life of a young employee found dead at the business Saturday morning.
Seattle police said coworkers found the victim’s body with apparent fatal gunshot wounds inside The Growler Guys around 9 a.m. Saturday. Authorities have not publicly identified the victim yet. He was in his 20s.
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The young man’s death has shocked and shaken the surrounding North Seattle community.
Dozens of family members, friends, and regular customers surrounded the taped-off homicide scene for hours throughout the day Saturday. Several people who knew the victim described him as a friend to all, a family man, and a stand-out employee to his boss, Kelly Dole.
“He was a part of my community at The Growler Guys,” Dole said. “It’s been a joy just to see them together day after day, and for him to lose his life this way is just a shame and such a loss.”
The victim was also a close friend of Dole’s son for years.
The Growler Guys is closed for the time being, but many people stopped by on Sunday to drop off flowers, cards, or to stop to take a moment and reflect.
A note left at the corner of NE 85th St. and 20th Ave. NE was written by a family that had the victim serve them at The Growler Guys. “While we were only lucky enough to know you for one evening,” the note reads, “I know there are many, many more lives you have made a lasting impact on.”
Left next to the note was a child’s apple juice box. Coworkers of the victim said he always gave kids free apple juice.
“Don’t tell my boss,” they said the victim would say with a smile.
He really was important to the guests and always had a smile, Dole said of his young employee. He had worked at The Growler Guys for about a year.
The victim was killed sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, and police are still investigating a possible motive and suspect. So far, no arrests have been made.
People living nearby, who wanted to remain anonymous, said they didn’t hear any gunshots but called the death shocking: “Well, my heart breaks. My first thought is that it’s a tragedy,” one man said.
Anyone with information or surveillance video in the surrounding Lake City area should contact Seattle police or 911 immediately.
Dole said he hopes justice is served to offer a small piece of closure to the victim’s grieving family.
“My heart goes out to his mom and his dad, his brother and other family members,” Dole said. “It’s just so tragic.”
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