Breaking News out of Durotar this morning:
Booty Bay business tycoon, and Trade Princess of the Swiftsilver Cartel, Senneca Swiftsilver was found dead this morning, the apparent victim of a gangland homicide. Ms. Swiftsilver is thought to have been driving her Goblin Turbo-trike between Orgrimmar and Ratchet, en-route back to her hometown of Booty Bay, when she was apparently ambushed by multiple gunmen.
Witnesses reported hearing “hundreds of gunshots” in the area of the road north of Ratchet, over several minutes at approximately 9am this morning, and Ms. Swiftsilver was discovered by police alongside her bullet riddled vehicle shortly afterwards, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Evidence at the scene indicated that Ms. Swiftsilver had taken cover behind her vehicle, and returned fire at her assailants, based on a tommy gun and bullet casings found scattered around her corpse. Senneca was declared dead at the crime scene.
Blood pools and drag marks around the suspected ambush site indicate Ms. Swiftsilver was able to kill or wound several of her assailants before being fatally struck herself, but there were no other bodies found at the scene, indicating the assassins covered their tracks and removed the bodies before police could arrive. There are no suspects at this time, and the motive for the assassination is thought by police to be related to organized crime.
Senneca Swiftsilver was born in Kezan, the daughter of ka’ja mining tycoon, and notoriously shrewd businessman Alister Swiftsilver. She inherited her father’s mining empire upon his sudden and unexpected death when she was a young woman, and moved to sell off her stake in the Swiftsilver Mining Company to her father’s business rival, Wixxo Jinglepocket. Wixxo was tragically killed in a gas leak explosion, along with the heads of the other ka’ja mining ventures, while they were meeting to decide how to divide the Swiftsilver Empire among themselves, leaving no competition, and Senneca free to buy out their companies to form a monopoly.
Shortly after Senneca Consolidated her power, she lost everything in the Cataclysm with the destruction of Kezan and she escaped as a penniless refugee. What happened next is unclear, but after some time, Senneca resurfaced as one of the most successful business tycoons in Azeroth, effectively controlling the lucrative port of Booty Bay, and forging trading networks that ran deep into both Horde and Alliance.
Although known for her charisma, and ability to charm anyone she met, Senneca was long suspected of having ties to organized crime, which she fervently denied. She had been accused of using the port as a staging area for drugs and weapons smuggling operations, and several murders and disappearances in the area were linked to rival business interests. Despite these rumors, The Redwood Times reported on her many charitable foundations helping needy orphans and widows in Booty Bay, and she was generally highly regarded by the citizens of the town. Her death comes on the heels of a recently opened casino on the top floor of the Badda-BOOM! nightclub which she owned.
Police are asking anyone with any information on the murder or suspects to contact Detective Norman McGarnegal at the Orgrimmar Police Homocide Division. At the time of her death, Senneca Swiftsilver was 27 years old.
More information as it becomes available to us.