Woman stabbed to death; second unrelated stabbing reported in Seattle
Nov 23, 2020, 1:19 PM | Updated: Nov 24, 2020, 6:08 am
First Ave. South in Seattle on Monday. (Seattle DOT)
(Seattle DOT)
A woman was stabbed to death in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood on Monday. Later that day, police arrested a 27-year-old man for an unrelated stabbing on Olive Way.
Officers arrived to a report of a stabbing in the around 11 a.m. that fire medics arrived to the scene to find a woman dead.
Lanes on First Avenue were closed for hours while homicide detectives investigated.
Later Monday — around 3:30 p.m. — officers responded to the 500 block of Olive Way to investigate a report of another stabbing.
The 33-year-old victim said he was walking down the sidewalk when a man he didn’t know stabbed him. He followed the suspect while he dialed 911. The man was able to identify the 27-year-old suspect when officers arrived.
The victim was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
Police found a pocket knife on the suspect. He was booked into King County Jail for felony assault. He also has a felony warrant for escape from community custody.
The two stabbing incidents are unrelated, according to Seattle police.
