Seattle Police found two people injured and bleeding after an altercation and stabbing on the west edge of Cal Anderson Park along Nagle Place Wednesday morning.
Police were working to determine the circumstances and were told the victim in the stabbing was able to pepper spray the assailant who reportedly fled to Broadway.
According to emergency radio updates, SPD found one person with a laceration to their face near the Cal Anderson reservoir pump house and another on Broadway suffering from a shot of pepper spray to the face and injuries to his hands. Seattle Fire was called to treat both men just after 8:30 AM.
The area along Nagle and Cal Anderson Park has been an ongoing problem for law enforcement that community groups identified as a “drug market” in need of public safety changes after a double homicide on the street earlier this year.
UPDATE: SPD has posted a brief on the incident:
At 0836 hours while assisting Parks Department in Cal Anderson Park officers heard someone yell from the west side of the park that they had been stabbed. Officers ran over to the male victim, he was bleeding from his face and head, and he pointed up the stairs to Broadway. He said that the suspect ran up the stairs. Officers gave chase and found the suspect in the business at the top of the stairs. The suspect was placed into custody without incident and was treated by SFD for pepper spray from the victim. The victim was treated by SFD on the scene and was transported to HMC for his non-life-threatening injuries.
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Yeah…Anytime you want to clear out the open air drug and fencing market would be good.
Hmmmmm, let’s just keep pondering this problem area for the next 3 years as people keep getting injured and killed, THEN let’s lobby the SCC to do a study on it, which will take another 2 years, then we can argue about it some more for maybe a year or two, then we might? be able to ask the police to have that area regularly patrolled? Maybe even have 2 police on the weekends that are stationed in the area? Or is this crazy talk?
YES, we all know this is a very problematic area of the hill. Would it be too pragmatic to install many cameras around Nagle Place and Cal Anderson and have 2 police officers patrol the area on a regular basis?
It’s too bad the closest precinct to monitor this area is so far away :/
Being close to a precinct means little to nothing, as the patrol officers are basically only there to clock in and collect their vehicle… or do you expect the clerical staff to run over and help?