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Police investigating after man found with neck slashed at 10th and Prospect — UPDATE

A passerby found a man down and bleeding with a lacerated neck in an incident police are investigating as an assault at 10th and E Prospect early Sunday morning. Officers found a weapon and splatters of blood on the pavement along a block of 10th Ave E south of Prospect near where the victim was found.

UPDATE 12/17/19 1:00 PM: A department spokesperson said the investigation has determined the incident was “not a criminal matter.” That indicates police have determined the injury was self-inflicted.

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Original report: According to Seattle Police, a 911 caller reported the adult male down just after 5 AM. A quickly arriving police officer confirmed the man had suffered what appeared to be a slashed neck reported him alert and conscious but bleeding heavily. The victim was rushed to Harborview in critical condition. We do not know more about his condition but he survived the apparent attack, according to police.

Information was still being collected by police but a SPD spokesperson said the incident is being investigated as an assault. “It’s unclear what exactly happened,” the spokesperson said Sunday afternoon. UPDATE 12/16/19 10:15 AM: Police say the incident remains under investigation and there are no updates yet to share about how the man ended up so seriously injured.

Police were searching for a person seen leaving the area at the time man was found but were unable to immediately locate the individual. The man was described as a white male, around 5’10”, 165 pounds, with brown, shoulder-length hair, and wearing a gray hoodie. Police weren’t sure of the man’s connection to the incident.

Police and a K9 unit checked the blocks around the scene just west of Volunteer Park and 10th Ave E was closed to traffic during the Seattle Fire medical response and SPD investigation. A weapon of some type was recovered near the scene and officers found a large amount of blood and more droplets on the sidewalk midblock along the west side of 10th Ave E.

 

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Steve
Steve
4 years ago

Walk through Volunteer park in the morning and around 7 am Sunday there was a homeless guy fitting that description following me and my hubby. A few weeks earlier a different homeless guy there threatened to kill us and everyone else in Seattle. Called the police and hung around for an hour but they never showed. Astounding that Volunteer Park is now sketchy.

Chas. Ragen
Chas. Ragen
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve

The deranged attack, it seems – according to report I only briefly scanned- happened in the wee to very early morning hours on Tenth Avenue East two blocks west. That is the direction of Broadway public order chaos and freeway-side encampments, grifters, drug abusers, and criminal activity associated with the St Mark’s greenbelt.

I have volunteered in our park for over forty years. It’s safe to say I have seen it all from corpses to joyous celebrations. Volunteer Park is tremendously neat, clean, orderly, safe and welcoming compared to other parks ie Cal Anderson.

In early AM it’s still pitch-dark. Take a flashlight or walking stick if you exercise alone in dark areas. Situational awareness is warranted. The Park is officially closed from 10 PM to 6 AM.

Volunteer Park not sketchy when people are using it. It’s greatly improved since five years ago. The strategy has been to make it attractive and welcoming. The negative activity is greatly overwhelmed by normal behavior and positive activity. Staff (though few), neighbors, visitors, and volunteers are very engaged in the Park at all operating hours. The Park Department infrastructure maintenance group has to get off their buttons and fix a few lights. To their credit that work is scheduled for early next year.

Nonetheless the larger point is true that naive Seattleites have facilitated and been taken advantage of by an invasion of a few hundred hard cases with mental health/personality disorder and / or substance abuse/addiction issues.

wayoutwest
wayoutwest
4 years ago

This sounds so vicious and random, glad he made it to the hospital. Updates when available appreciated.