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Man arrested after allegedly stabbing woman in face in downtown Seattle

Mar 21, 2025, 12:24 PM | Updated: 2:02 pm

Large police presence swarms the area of 3rd Avenue and Blanchard Street. (MyNorthwest file photo)...

Large police presence swarms the area of 3rd Avenue and Blanchard Street. (MyNorthwest file photo)

(MyNorthwest file photo)

Seattle Police Department officers have arrested a man after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the face in downtown Seattle.

The incident happened Friday around 12 p.m. in the 2100 block of Third Avenue. Officers were originally sent to reports of a man stabbing people, however, only one victim was found. The woman, in her 50s, had a cut near her eye.

SPD said police deployed a taser while arresting the man.

“Officers arrived and found a male and actually arrested that male, he was in his 30s,” an SPD spokesperson told MyNorthwest. “They found a female with a laceration near the eye, non-life-threatening injuries.”

SPD said the woman was transported to the hospital by AMR for medical care, while the suspect will be transported the the King County Jail for assault.

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