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Jury selection started Monday in a stabbing case at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park, reported.

Nicholas Matthew is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly attacking a woman on a marked trail of Five Mile Drive on the afternoon of February 10, 2024, according to the Tacoma Police Department.

Matthew reportedly pinned the woman to the ground and repeatedly stabbed her. Witnesses intervened, and Matthew ran from the scene toward the Owen Beach parking lot. After that, they lost sight of him.

鈥淚 begged him to let me go, that I could give him money, that I would give him anything he wanted if I could live,鈥� the woman said in a press conference. 鈥淭hat was when he made it verbally explicit that his intent was to kill me.鈥�

Emergency management workers transported the woman to the hospital with serious wounds.

Man arrested in connection with Point Defiance stabbing

TPD arrested Matthew in March 2024 after finding out he had fled to Atlanta, Georgia.

Detectives secured a confidential, attempted murder in the first-degree warrant with nationwide extradition and flew to Atlanta. When they arrived in Georgia, they found out Matthew was trying to leave the country.

Law enforcement then caught him in San Francisco. He was held in a California correctional facility before being extradited to Washington.

In May 2024, a judge found Matthew not competent to stand trial after his mother said he had bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia, according to . He was ordered to 90-day treatment.

However, a competency evaluation subsequently determined he was fit to stand trial, KOMO News reported.