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• Eastlake homicide: Prosecutors have not yet charged the man police say kicked his drinking companion in the head causing a fatal injury in a brawl outside an Eastlake homeless shelter in late September. 47-year-old Kenneth Lofton died hours after the September 26th fight put him on life support. According to police, the 55-year-old suspect admitted to kicking Lofton after a night of drinking and disputes on Capitol Hill and at the Eastlake facility where the two men were residents, the 1811 House shelter for homeless men and women addicted to alcohol. Police say staff at the facility saw Lofton bleeding profusely from a head injury following the 3 AM fight but that the victim refused medical attention. Around 9:30 AM, Lofton was found on the floor, gasping for breath. He was rushed to the hospital and later died of his injuries. The 55-year-old was booked into King County Jail that night on $1 million bail but was conditionally released four days later.
• Phoenix Jones pistol-whipping incident: No charges have been filed in the pistol-whipping assault in which Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones claimed his intervention saved the victim’s life in the early morning Pike/Pine assault. Police took three men into custody following the incident. Court records indicate that none of the three have yet been charged.
• SPD report on Harvard shooting: The SPD report on last weekend’s gunfire on Harvard Ave doesn’t add many new details about the incident — but it does clarify what the victim hit in the foot by the stray bullet was up to:It also documents a nearby close call for another man who happened to be sitting in his car near the shooting scene:Police have made no arrests in the case.
• 12th Ave bar thief: Police were called to a bar in the 400 block of 12th Ave early Sunday morning to a report that a man who had been refused service because he owned nearly $300 on his bar tab had decided to take getting a drink into his own hands:
  

  V/ stated that this male currently owes the establishment approximately $285, and as a result, she refused to serve him. The male then
  became upset, and opened the door that separates the public area of the establishment with the area behind the bar, and walked behind the bar itself.
  As he did so, V/ states that the male used force to push her aside. The male then grabbed a bottle of liquor from behind the bar, and exited a back
  entrance of the establishment. The male was last seen walking west in the alley adjacent to the establishment.

  The bottle of booze was valued at $80 according to the SPD report.

• Water bottle assault: Officers responded to a Pike/Pine bar late last month after a female patron reportedly attacked staff by tossing water bottles at the bartender:The venue agreed not to press charges if the suspect left the bar.