A man suffered reported critical injuries in a stabbing in an assault Tuesday night outside the Harvard Market QFC.

Seattle Police and Seattle Fire were called to Broadway and Pike just after 7:45 PM to the reported stabbing.

A man was reportedly tracked down within minutes at 10th and Pike and taken into custody but a witness told police they had the wrong man, according to East Precinct radio updates.

The suspect was reported as a white male wearing a beanie, 50 to 60 years old, and wearing a grey jacket. He was last seen headed east west on Pike.

UPDATE: SPD reports there was an altercation between the two men previous to the stabbing and are asking the public for information. Anyone with information is asked to contact the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.

Police were able to obtain extensive video evidence from the scene, according to radio updates.

The victim was reported in serious condition with a stab wound to his stomach and was being transported from the scene to Harborview.

Broadway at Pike’s street disorder issues have continued. Last summer, the city identified the area as it made the list — twice — for Seattle’s top areas for Crime and Overdose Concentration according to the Seattle Police Department.

CHS reported here on Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office’s plan to address Pike/Pine public safety concerns including adding the area to an anti-crime camera pilot as part of a new SPD surveillance system combining Closed-Circuit Television Camera systems above the city’s streets with “real-time crime center” software.

Deputy Mayor Tim Burgess said other expansions of city efforts to address street disorder downtown were also being considered for Pike/Pine, saying his office was “in talks” with neighborhood businesses about stringing more catenary lights in an attempt to brighten darker areas outside the Pike/Pine core.

Burgess also revealed the effort to establish a Community Assisted Response and Engagement (CARE) station on the street level of the Harvard Market shopping center in a space left empty when Chase Bank departed the challenged corner.

But efforts to establish the new CARE facility on Broadway bogged down over a possible lease at the shopping center. A spokesperson told CHS the search continues but is no longer centered on Harvard Market.

The mayor’s office has said the ongoing challenges around hiring more officers has also been an underlying problem for the East Precinct. For the first time in five years, Seattle’s police department barely hired more officers than it lost last year.

The city’s increased response followed the October 19th murder of 25-year-old Breanna Simmons and a related shooting the next day.

The intersection is also now part of the city’s Capitol Hill “Stay out of Drug Area” exclusion zone. CHS reported here on the city’s first and only exclusion order issued after a judge signed off on an order barring a woman busted for smoking fentanyl outside the Harvard Market QFC in December.

Tragedies around Pike and Broadway have continued. In the early hours of December 31st, 29-year-old Jonny Adamow was shot and killed in what is believed to have been a botched ambush targeting another person at the troubled intersection. There have been no arrests announced in Adamow’s murder.

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