Man arrested for threats, slurs at Capitol Hill store
Mar 3, 2015, 2:14 PM | Updated: 4:15 pm
A 52-year-old man was arrested Monday after hurling epithets and slurs at people in a Capitol Hill store, according to police.
Witnesses said an intoxicated man was hanging out in the store’s doorway – located in 1500 block of 11th Avenue – when he started yelling homophobic slurs and derogatory remarks to Asian customers. Employees asked him to leave, but he refused.
Police said the suspect finally left after a companion walked up and told him, “You don’t know what neighborhood you are in, but you don’t say those things here.”
Officers eventually caught up with the man near the store. They also found the clothes he was wearing stuffed into a cooler he had been carrying. The store manager confirmed the suspect’s identity.
Officers booked the man into the King County Jail for investigation of malicious harassment.
