School Fight
Seattle Police officers arrived at the Seattle Center House after a rather unusual school fight involving a current student at the alternative high school located inside the Center House and some former students of the school. It was around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 12th when the victim, a student at the school, was inside the Center House. He was approached by two subjects who used to go to school with him. One was a recent graduate. According to the responding officers, the subjects had a beef with some of the victim’s friends.
The subjects began antagonizing the victim, demanding he give them his cell phone. One of them even pulled out some brass knuckles, which he displayed in a threatening manner. When the victim, playing the bigger man, started to walk away, the subjects began following him outside onto Thomas Street, toward Fifth Avenue. He continued to walk away from them, but one of the subjects began pushing the victim from behind. They also grabbed his phone charger out of the side picket of his backpack, as well as a bag of chips. After stealing these two items, the bullies walked away, back toward the Seattle Center grounds.
When police responded they searched the Center grounds for the subjects, but were unable to find them. The victim was uninjured.
Cowardly Crowd
When Seattle Police officers responded to a bar where a huge crowd of people had seen a man get punched in the face hard enough to knock him out cold for a good 30 minutes, none of the people in the crowd of witnesses would step up and tell them what had happened. At about 11:15 p.m. on Wednesday, June 6th two officers responded to the bar in Magnolia, and found the victim unconscious. Seattle Fire responded and found him bleeding from his right eye and the back of his head, and his blood pressure and heart rate were elevated. He was transported by ambulance to Harborview, where he was intermittently responsive to questions, but when he answered he was unintelligible.
Police spoke with one employee of the bar, who said he’d been inside at the time of the incident, which happened at about 10:45 p.m. But, he’d heard from some of the people in the crowd that the victim had approached a group on the bar’s patio, which appeared to consist of a man, his girlfriend, and the girlfriend’s mother, and asked to borrow a lighter for his cigarette. This apparently sparked an argument. At one point the man stood up from the table and punched the victim one time with a closed fist. The victim was knocked to the ground and didn’t get up. The group then got up and left, paying their bill at the bar inside.
After the suspect and his friends left, people began to notice the victim was not moving at all. Then somebody called 911. Police spoke with everybody who was at the bar when they arrived, but nobody was willing to speak with police, other than to confirm the story told by the bar employee. No suspect description was obtained, making it almost impossible to try to find the suspect.
Stranger Danger
On Friday, June 8th at about 7:05 a.m. Seattle Police were called by a Seattle Fire unit to the area of Melrose Avenue East and East Denny Way when they’d responded to treat a woman who was bleeding profusely from her mouth and pretty delirious. When they tried questioning the victim, they couldn’t understand her because she couldn’t speak due to missing most of her bottom teeth and suffering a possible broken jaw.
Police did speak with the victim’s friend, who was not very helpful; she wasn’t extremely interested in helping out the cops. She said she’d been in her apartment on Harrison Street at about 6:40 that morning when the victim buzzed from outside to come in. When she saw the victim was bleeding, she decided to walk her to the hospital. She said she had no idea why her friend was bleeding.
Once she got some medical treatment, the victim was able to tell police what had happened to her. She said she’d been walking on Fairview Avenue North near Harrison Street when a strange man began following her. She told the man to stop following her, and apparently an argument started. She said the stranger, a tall, muscular man in his 20s or 30s, began punching her several times in the mouth and head with a closed fist. She told police her jaw hurt. The victim’s doctor at the hospital told police she’d lost several bottom teeth, and that she suspected the victim’s jaw was broken.
The victim said that while the suspect was a stranger to her, she’d seen him in the area before, and that she would be able to identify him if she saw him again.
Stalker With a Stick
At about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 12th a couple of Seattle Police officers responded to a 911 call at an apartment building on Boren Avenue. The building’s manager called to report that a man kept coming back to the building and harassing her, trying to get in the building, and had just assaulted her. When police arrived she told them the man had been in the lobby at about 11 a.m. that morning, and was asking if a particular resident was home, because he owed him money. The manager told him that she couldn’t give out information about residents, and that he couldn’t hang out in the lobby. He said he would write the resident a note, and stayed in the lobby for 30 minutes writing a note full of incoherent ramblings.
The man eventually left, but came back at about 4 p.m. He at first was banging a stick on the manager’s office window, and then went around back where she could see him on the security cameras doing something to the back door. She went back there and told him to leave; he began walking away, at which point she noticed a little metal bar stuck in the door jam. It appeared the man was trying to jimmy the door open. She took the metal bar out of the door jam and began walking over to the dumpster with it, when the man approached her and demanded she give him his metal bar back. She told him no, and to get away from her. Instead he approached her, reached around her and forcibly ripped the metal bar out of her hands, twisting her arm in the process.
At this point she told the man he was not welcome in the building, and that he needed to leave, because he is no longer allowed on the property. He continued to ask if the resident was there, because he owed him money. The victim told him he needed to leave or she would call the police. He told her to go ahead, and then walked away.
So police came and took the woman’s statement. While writing his report, the responding officer received a second call stating the man had once again returned to the apartment building. The same two police officers went back to the building and spoke with the suspect. He admitted to ripping the metal out of the victim’s hands and trying to pry the back door of the building open. He said one of the residents of the building owed him money.
The officers arrested the man for assault and trespassing at about 6:30 p.m. He was booked into King County Jail that evening.