Man recovering after being stabbed in the neck with hatchet
Mar 17, 2025, 8:39 AM
A Seattle Police Department vehicle. (Photo courtesy of the Seattle Police Department)
(Photo courtesy of the Seattle Police Department)
A 34-year-old man is recovering after another man stabbed him in the neck with a hatchet in the middle of the afternoon along Union Street in the city’s First Hill Neighborhood.
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) first received a 911 call at 2:39 p.m. Sunday. When responding officers found the victim, paramedics rushed him to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. SPD doesn’t know what led up to the attack, as of this reporting.
A short time later, SPD officers located and arrested the suspect inside a nearby 10th-floor apartment. After getting a search warrant, Police said they found the hatchet under a mattress. The hatchet was 12 inches long with a seven-inch blade, according to SPD.
The 50-year-old suspect was booked into King County Jail on suspicion of first-degree assault.
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