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- Volunteer Park random attack: A woman was left bloodied and battered after a man struck her with a large stick and cut open her head in a random attack Friday evening in Volunteer Park. Police were unable to immediately track down the assailant described as a white male in his 50s with a large gray beard, white hair, and possibly wearing a red beanie at the time of the just after 5:30 PM attack near 11th and Prospect. The suspect was also describing as having only one single upper tooth. Police were searching for the suspect who fled from the park on foot after the attack with “a large tree branch” but were unable to track him down. “Officers found that the victim was walking in the park when the suspect, who is a stranger, walked behind her with a large stick and without saying a word, began striking her multiple times,” the SPD report on the incident reads. “The victim fell to the ground and the suspect continued to strike her multiple times before fleeing the area.” Seattle Fire was called to treat the victim for her injuries including a large laceration to her head.
- Arrest after Lime bike tossed off overpass: Police arrested a man after a Lime bike was thrown from the Denny Way overpass onto I-5 Thursday night. SPD says it was called to the overpass around 7 PM and began searching for the suspect who was located about four blocks away. “Luckily, only a WA DOT truck struck the bike with no one injured,” SPD reports. The Washington State Patrol assisted in the response.
- Yesler gunfire: Gunshots brought police to the area around 20th and Yesler early Sunday:
At 0241 hours, Officers responded to the location reference shots fired. Upon arrival multiple shell casings were found in the roadway. There was no identified victims and no property damage. Incident may have stemmed from an argument/disagreement at house party adjacent to the location.
There were no arrests. - Burglary suspect search: Police were searching for a burglary suspect who surprised a babysitting teen inside an apartment building near 21st and Fir Thursday morning:
At 0942 hours, RP Juvenile female called 911 reporting that an unknown adult male subject forced entry through her ground level apartment window. RP was watching her infant sibling at the time and quickly barricaded themselves in a bedroom. She heard the suspect attempt to open the bedroom door, so she screamed, and the suspect ran out. Officers arrived quickly, cleared the apartment, and set up containment. K913 deployed as well and eventually located the suspect appx 3 blocks away. Suspect was apprehended without altercation. DOC warrant was located for FTR and requested custody of the suspect. Officers also discovered this suspect had been suspected of attempted car prowl earlier this morning. Incident screened by 241. - ‘Road rage’ shooting victim: A driver who says they were shot in the head in a South Seattle road rage incident arrived at First Hill’s Harborview early Wednesday:
At 0224 hours, officers responded to HMC for a walk-in GSW. HMC security stated the driver that dropped off the victim was out in front of the ER. Victim stated that this was a road rage incident that started in the south precinct near a McDonalds on Rainier near Aki Kurose Middle school. As of writing this, no scene has been located. Victim is in stable condition with a GSW to the top of his head.
SPD says it is investigating the shooting.
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Imagine how unsafe Capitol Hill will become when every addict in Seattle is funneled into the new treatment center on Broadway, and then dumped back into the city’s biggest bar/drug scene after 24 hours.
Oh paleeeeez!
MAGA logic is so twisted.
Dude… you realize that you are part and party to shoving people towards more conservative views… When you refuse to recognize that not being randomly attacked in public by someone suffering from psychoses is a completely valid thing there will be more and more backlash.
Being progressive really shouldn’t mean not wanting people who genuinely are a public threat off the streets and receiving the treatment that they need.
I think we all understand that not every person who is mentally ill is violent, but this is not an isolated incident. There’ve been waaaaaay too many folks innocently going about their lives attacked and even killed in recent years.
Roland J. Lee – randomly stabbed 10 people in Chinatown.. Ruth Dalton – murdered by John Haynes, Eina Kwon killed by Cordell Goosby, Walter Tunloss who randomly struck a woman in Belltown with a baseball bat, Alexander Jay who randomly pushed a woman down the light rail stairs, stabbed a woman at a bus stop and murdered a man – all on the same day… Johnathan Jay Wilson who had a history of randomly assaulting women, who tried to throw a stranger over a freeway overpass.. Shawn Moore who killed Corey Bellett for the grave crime of passing him on the light rail escalator.. Francisco Calderon – arrested more than 70 times, often for random stranger attacks, who threw a cup of coffee on a toddler (fortunately it wasn’t scaling hot anymore)… Liam Kryger who killed two random homeless people with an ax..
And these are just the high profile cases. I’ve seen plenty more people who have spoken about being randomly assaulted – punched out of the blue, hit on the back of the head unexpectedly..
I shouldn’t be able to make this list… Pretty much none of what is listed above just came out of the blue.. these are people who mostly have pretty extensive criminal and mental health related records… and if you think progressive values means leaving them free to terrorize the city, then I think you’ll find fewer and fewer people agreeing with you as time goes by…
If MAGA means not wanting random violent attacks by homeless lunatics, then I guess I’m MAGA.
If becoming MAGA would get murderers off the streets of Capitol Hill, then I would happily become MAGA. But I’ve lived here long enough to know that sane, rational democracy works just fine. We can have a safe, friendly, fun, and caring Capitol Hill again! But we won’t get there if we continue to center all legislation around ignoring the needs of people living with mental illness and addiction, and encouraging them to live uncared for and unsupervised on public streets. Any rational democracy would call that madness.
I’ve lived in some big “dangerous” cities (NYC/MIA/BOS), but Seattle is scariest because it’s really just random drugged up crazies running around making life miserable for hardworking people who are productive members of our city and community. Once summer is over (and the city stops “photoshopping” the city for tourists) I worry that we will have the same level of degenerates running around like they did all winter. I’m shocked by how people here just normalize how crime ridden the neighborhood is on a regular basis, and at these prices for rent/homes/food(everything) and instead we want to keep coddling out of state druggies who come here for a cheap score and a social system that coddles addicts. Seattle is missing the plot. Now I know someone will get mad and yell at me, save it, I’m not rich, I’m not white, I’m not straight, I have always voted blue. But this shit is crazy af! take it from an NYer this isn’t normal or ok, Cap hill is an area in crisis.
there’s money in knocking over us dominoes. you let them start and they’ll come to you eventually. Harrell and his “blue” council have been letting this happen. Vote PROGRESSIVE or this will certainly be just another rich-owned american sh!thole that throws people away
look I’m probably between a liberal and progressive. We tried having an majority progressive city council in the late 2010s until 2023. Look where that got us. Yes we did make some progress for renter protection, but we allowed laws to be laxxed that allowed criminals to find loop holes through them to wreck havoc. I’d rather see a return to a liberal and moderate Seattle just to spend the next 4-8 years to address and fix things.
“and at these prices” 🙄
You were so close to identifying the actual problem but then went into your self involved pity party…
Check out the history of Seattle and the conversations around street disorder the last time we saw this level of inequality in the 1920s and 30s and rich land developers squeezing out the poor and marginalized around the country.
History doesn’t repeat itself, it just rhymes in the same shitty tune over and over again from selfish pricks like you that care more about your pocketbooks than your neighbors.
call me a selfish prick but I don’t want to see Capitol Hill turn into SF’s SOMA or the Tenderloin. We all should be able to live in this neighborhood without worrying about getting mugged, assaulted, burglarized, having constant trespassers or having some drug addict homeless person trying to enter through our windows.
There used to be a collective sentiment on the Hill of “we don’t want to see Capitol Hill turn to sh!t” but that left sometime during the pandemic.
Some of us don’t want to see Capitol Hill turn to shit but that means actually helping our neighbors and supporting strategies that work, not coddling people that move here expecting an amusement park experience and have no interest in actually engaging with or uplifting people around them.
I’ve lived in dangerous cities big and small, it generally has more to do with the overall interest and engagement of the community. Here we’re putting in Top Golfs and Boba shops but bitching at a care center and every attempt at actually addressing the very issue you say you want to help.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/13/king-countys-housing-first-initiative-boasts-high-success-rate/
I hear you, Josh. I have also lived in “dangerous” cities, and this is worse for all the reasons you name. Seattle didn’t used to be this way, but about 10 years ago our city council went insane and everything broke. We need reasonable, rational people in government who practice kindness, not performative progressivism. Encouraging people living with addiction and mental illness to live “free” on the streets is NOT compassion, no matter what the anarchists on this thread say.
Wow. At 530pm volunteer park is hoppin with summer time, the wading pool going. Maybe not on Friday since it was raining? I sure hope there were bystanders who came to her aid while she was being struck by a crazy person.
I’m pretty certain I’ve seen that dude in Volunteer Park. He looks like a wizened Waldo (from Where is). He’s frequently in the park when I go there.
If you see him, call the cops immediately. He should be punished – severely.
I know this guy. I’d imagine many Cap Hill residents do, he’s not exactly a wallflower. He is always carrying either a stick or metal rod. He needs to be either locked up or put into an full time care facility for everybody’s good.
It’s not progressive to have these people attacking others in the midst of a drug induced physcosis.
Oh wow, from your description and the one above, I’m pretty sure I saw this guy a couple days ago walking by my house (which is not too far from there). He was carrying a metal rod. Geez, with so many sightings and the fact that he’s clearly just wandering in the same neighborhood in broad daylight, if the cops can’t catch this guy, WTH are they even doing all day?
I know his name, but CHB won’t allow it to be posted. The police know too. He has been attacking people for decades on Capitol Hill. He killed a grandma on Queen Anne in the 2000s in a random attack. The state and courts have failed us, not the police. They have arrested him many many times. The state’s involuntary commitment laws need to be changed.
Call the police and make a report. We aren’t going to allow people to post suspect names here for legal and ethical reasons I’m sure you are fully capable of understanding.
Also, please pick a username and stick to it. We will remove comments from visitors using multiple names to help prevent sockpuppet activities. Thanks!
he killed someone within the last 20 years and he was let out? wtf. and he assaulted that woman in the park. he definitely needs to be locked up and also banned from being allowed into city after he’s released.
He was convicted of manslaughter… I believe he attacked 3 elderly women that day – he took a running tackle at each of them. One died from a brain injury. As he suffers from delusions and it was not provable that he meant to kill her, even understood that as a possibility, manslaughter was the only option. He was sentenced to 7 years, minus time served, which was 2 years, so now he is out… and he is still very dangerous.
He probably never should have been sent to prison, but he is also incapable of living on his own. He is someone who requires medication and supervision, neither of which he currently is getting. He regularly is seen to be carrying some sort of weapon and threatens and assaults or tries to assault mainly older women. He also commits property damage, has a particular grudge against the Gaslight Inn’s sign for some reason and takes seemingly random items from porches and yards. He’d at one time collected a large pile of landscaping stones. He pops up often on other platforms where people post such incidents.
He’s very google-able if you know his crimes. He likes attacking women and killed a grandmother in the early aughts. He is VERY dangerous. This poor woman minding her own business in the park is lucky she is alive. Unfortunately, the only way Seattle courts will lock him up is if he kills another woman. Don’t be afraid to call the cops if you see him—they are on our side when it comes to this person and want to see him locked up forever.