http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAT6R3AQSC.html Federal Prosecutor, a Prominent Gun-Control Advocate, Shot to Death in Seattle Home By Peggy AndersenAssociated Press Writer Published: Oct 12, 2001 SEATTLE (AP) - A federal prosecutor who headed a prominent gun control group in his spare time was shot in his home and died early Friday. Thomas C. Wales, 49, died about 1:15 a.m. Friday at Harborview Medical Center. He had been shot in the neck and the side late Thursday, a hospital spokeswoman said. Details about the shooting were sketchy. No arrests had been made, police spokesman Mark Jamieson said. Wales was a member of the fraud unit in the U.S. attorney's office here, specializing in prosecution of banking and business crime, spokesman Lawrence Lincoln said. He also was board president of Seattle-based Washington Ceasefire, a gun-control group. "The death of Tom Wales is a terrible loss to our movement," said a statement from Michael T. Barnes, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "Although we do not yet know the motives for the shooting, we are angered by the murder of this true visionary." Federal agencies were assisting Seattle police in the investigation. Officials with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms declined to comment. According to The Seattle Times, neighbors in the wealthy Queen Anne Hill neighborhood reported hearing shots shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday. Neighbor Tom Olsby said Wales' wife, Elizabeth, a former Seattle School Board member, was away visiting family in New England. On Sept. 30, Washington Ceasefire planted thousands of daffodils in a popular city park in remembrance of people who had died from gun violence.