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(Image via Q13 Fox): Police are searching for a man they say was part of this brutal assault with a skateboard and robbery on E Pine earlier this month. Police say Jordan Evans is wanted for his role in the early morning June 9th attack:
Evans punched the victim repeatedly. Then, while the victim was unconscious, Evans allegedly kicked him in the head. One of the other suspects allegedly hit the victim in the head with a skateboard.
According to police, Evans is known to frequent clubs in the Capitol Hill area and has a distinctive “Skate and Destroy” tattoo on the left side of his head.
The victim, an employee at a Capitol Hill bank, is recovering from his injuries. If you have information about Evans, call 911.
- : Police responded to a reported phone theft late Friday just before midnight finding the first victim had recovered her phone but another victim was engaged in a fight with the suspect nearby. According to the report on the incident, police arrived to find the second victim with a bloodied mouth as the suspect stood in a “fighting stance” near the intersection of E Pike and Broadway. The victim, who the report notes was extremely angry and decline medical attention for his bloodied mouth, told police the suspect approached him and asked to borrow his phone before attempting to steal it by placing the phone in shirt pocket and walking away. When police called the victim’s phone number, a phone began ringing inside the suspect’s pocket. The iPhone was returned to the victim and the suspect was placed under arrest for investigation of robbery.
- Police found an assault and robbery in the 400 block of Harvard Ave E Saturday night involved a sleeper hold, heroin and a dispute over an iPhone sale:
According to the report, the victim in the incident told police the dispute was over an iPhone he had sold the attacker’s friend for $80. Because the phone did not use a SIM card, the phone is not “easily used once the service has been cancelled by the rightful owner,” the report notes. The victim told police the group had tried to make amends by exchanging heroin but that the suspect continued to demand a cash refund. Police also say the victim refused to identify the suspect in a photo line-up.
- This bike rider is looking for witnesses to her June 8th bike crash at 12th and Marion in an incident she says was a dooring but police reported as a fall:
The wreck knocked her out, so her memory of what happened is fuzzy. Without a witness, the police report will place the blame and bills on her.
- Community crime meeting: Thursday night’s meeting of the East Precinct Advisory Council will focus on recent gun violence including the unsolved shooting death of Justin Ferrari. Meeting begins at 6:30p at Seattle U’s Chardin Hall, room 142.
I assume a “dooring” means a driver opened their car door to get out, and a bike rider crashed into it?
If this happens, is it usually considered the fault of the driver for not looking? Or the bike rider for not being able to stop and/or evade a road obstacle? Seems like it could go either way. I’m curious if there’s an established, accepted precedent?
In most cases the person opening the door is responsible. It is considered failure to yield, just as it would be if the driver moved the whole car into traffic.
State law says clearly that drivers and their passengers shall not:
open the door of a motor vehicle on the side adjacent to moving traffic unless and until it is reasonably safe to do so, and can be done without interfering with the movement of other traffic, nor shall any person leave a door open on the side of a vehicle adjacent to moving traffic for a period of time longer than necessary to load or unload passengers.[RCW 46.61.620]
OK, perhaps the law is clear on this point. But I would like to say that, sometimes, a speeding cyclist can “come out of nowhere,” and a motorist is not necessarily being negligent when an accident occurs. A passing car can also come out of nowhere, but it is usually far enough towards the median that a parked car door opening is unlikely to hit the vehicle. Cyclists travel much closer to parked cars, as they are trying to “share the road,” so an accident is more likely.
It has become quite obvious that cell/smart phone theft is a major problem on our streets, and quite often it is accompanied by a mugging. This is certainly one of the downsides of the “digital revolution.”
People, please keep your phones hidden when you are out on the streets….and, for god’s sake, don’t share it with some stranger!
I had two close calls with nearly dooring a bicyclists while getting out of a taxi. The passenger side door is NOT adjacent to traffic, but to parked vehicles and often a bicyclist tries to cut between them. Whose at fault then?
One has got to be a barbarian to assault an innocent person. To be part of a group of four people assaulting a single innocent person makes all of them goddamn savages. To hit someone over the head with a skateboard makes that guy a piece of shit. Several years ago a man was killed, murdered, with a skateboard to the head. I bet they enjoyed themselves.
I agree completely. Urban thuggery at its worst.
But, with that tattoo on his head, he will be easy to spot, and arrest…hopefully that will happen soon.