A man reported being jumped and stabbed for his wallet early Sunday morning, according to this SPD report. According to the report, the victim didn’t immediately call police to report the crime and said he went to bed after the robbery not realizing he had been stabbed.
On 2/14/10, at approximately 1:45 a.m., the victim reported that he was walking home alone in the 1600 blk. Summit Ave. He stated that suspect #1 approached him from the front and asked if he had any money. Before the victim could answer, an unknown suspect #2 grabbed him from behind and wrestled him to the ground.
A third unknown suspect joined in the struggle and assisted the others in pinning the victim to the ground. During the struggle the victim felt several impacts to his mid/lower back and a dull pain. The suspects removed the victim’s wallet from his back pocket. The wallet contained $500 cash and 2 bank cards. The suspects then fled in an unknown direction.
The victim reported that he was “ashamed” that he had been overpowered and robbed, and did not immediately call for police assistance. He said he returned home and went to bed. He reported waking this morning and finding that he was bleeding from the back. Alarmed, he went to Harborview. Medical staff there determined he had been stabbed in the back 3 times.
The victim described the suspects as unknown race males.
We are still working to follow up on a series of attacks that occurred last Saturday night/early Sunday morning around the Hill. Those attacks involved a larger group of men described as four to five black males wearing hoodies and dark clothing, according to police radio chatter.
CHS reported on a string of armed and strong-arm street robberies on the Hill in early to mid-January. In the last armed street hold-up we reported, a man had his wallet taken from him at knifepoint on E Denny Way on January 10th. We’ll review the Hill’s January crime hotspots in an upcoming post.
I am sick of this crap!! I really don’t feel at all safe in my neighborhood. This stuff is happening on a daily basis lately and I feel like it’s only a matter of time before me or someone I know gets jumped. Disgusting fuckheads!!
Wow. That’s right outside my door it sounds like. It’d be nice to find out the exact location…not that it’ll make a difference. And, has anybody else noticed no side-street patrols from SPD? They’re all up on Broadway/Pike/Pine but never any side streets like Denny, Summit, Boren- where these attacks seem to happen.
Don’t get mad, do something about it. I suggest something along the lines of neighborhood block watches, community councils, crime prevention groups. Your basic ‘squeaky wheel’ stuff.
http://www.sngi.org/neighborhood/central.php
http://www.sngi.org/neighborhood/epcpc.php
http://chcc.wikidot.com/
http://seattle.gov/neighborhoods/nsc/capitolhill.htm
If you don’t, who will?
It might be a good idea for the East Precinct to deploy undercover cops posing as naive hipsters walking the street to nap these thugs. These crimes shouldn’t be happening as often as they are considering there’s police station in close proximity to the danger spots.
Good question- Where are the SPD?
So now, not only do I feel unsafe taking the bus
( http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-ap-seattle-girl-beaten-bus) I feel unsafe walking in my neighborhood.
Do you expect the SPD to know when and where crimes are taking place so they can be at the exact spot while it is occuring?
It probably happened on the north side of the condos getting all the exterior work done. I usually leave my building and walk down Pine to buy things at the little store around the corner. But this Sunday evening there were so many people in the doorways and bus stop asking for money and cigarettes I decided to return home by walking around the block.
There were three guys standing in the dark talking right there next to the covered sidewalk for the construction. I walked out in the street to avoid going through them.
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That would be nice, but that seems a little unlikely to me, don’t you think.
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Might be a good idea for you to call the precinct and tell them your story. Might give them some leads/ideas on where to look for thugs.
Overall, it does seem these sorts of muggings are increasing on the Hill. I’ve had several recent questionable encounters the last few months with groups of 3-4 teenage boys/young adults. Each time I yielded to my uneasiness and took steps to avoid getting too close.
Just be extra vigilant, travel with several friends, and if a situation makes you uneasy, head for an area with people. There’s no harm in running from a situation before it turns ugly.
Sounds to me like a guy who closed out the bar, was so completely wasted that he didn’t even realize he was stabbed. These attacks hardly seem random when people willingly put their survival instincts aside, placing themselves at risk like that. Is it any wonder these occurences keep happening with so many criminal and sex offender halfway houses in the neighborhood?
It sounds like you are blaming the victim. It doesn’t seem that it’s very helpful. We don’t know if he was drunk or not, he could have been really tired after a long night of work.
Give the guy a break, he just got jumped and mugged.
A few facts lead me to believe we don’t have the full story of what really went down here. First, why did the victim have $500 cash on him? (Ask yourself, how many times in your life have you *ever* had that kind of cash in hand.) Second, embarrassment aside, why did the victim not immediately report the robbery– especially when that kind of money was involved. Finally, why did the victim not immediately seek medical attention, after having been stabbed thrice. To be clear, I’m not saying the victim deserved this attack, or that we should tolerate this kind of violence in our community. None of the above-noted facts, however, are consistent with an innocent assault.
I am often out at this time in the night 90% of the people are drunk. Why is it wrong to throw the possibility that they were drunk into the equation. Also I might throw in there that the person was possibly pre-occupied. I.E. texting with their expensive phone. Just some common observations I see night after night on the hill. How are you supposed to stay safe when you make nearly every poor decision that can get you into trouble. Voluntarilly offering your safety and belongings to bad people to take advantage of. If I were a mugger I would have a hay day in the capitol hill area. I am not blaming the victim in this sense and I sucks he was became a victim of this. I am blaming people for this volunteer victim beahvior.
I think the person was drunk and all the details point to it. How do you not know you have not been stabbed. How do you go home and just sleep an experience like this off. How can you not tell the races of a person.
Also a small small percentage of robberies have an attack such as this. usually just someone brandishing a weapon. Something doesn’t add up.
It was the weekend before the 15th. It is possible that the guy just got paid Saturday. Went out, had a few drinks and was heading home.
We see plenty of people, alone, lurching from one side of the walk to the other on the weekends.
The three robbers in the story may have been waiting for the right person under the right conditions. The victim didn’t have to flash any money at a bar to have been picked out walking alone.
However, it may be that he had more than a few drinks, and that would more than explain not doing a lot of things one normally does under the circumstances.
A. Noticing people in front of you
B. Calling the police after being robbed
C. Noticing you’ve been injured.
D. Sleeping for almost 24 hours
( The last two in any order )
Excuse me? Are you saying it’s his fault he was stabbed? The 1600 block of Summit is within a quarter mile of what, two dozen restaurants and bars? He was also *less than a block* from a very busy market, which sits at a major crossroad. In the other direction is Pine, another major artery. The foot traffic is busiest here starting at 1:45 am. Walking when there are lots of people around is using common sense. Loads of people spilling out onto the street and lining up to make purchases makes me feel safer if I have to walk home alone. I used to notice more police cars cruising by around that time too. Although, not lately.
Besides housing hipsters, one thing Capitol Hill is great for is nightlife. Getting a little toasted and walking home isn’t an unreasonable expectation and in fact It’s one of the nice things about living on the Hill. If a person can’t be tipsy and walk home safely when home is often less than a mile away, that isn’t a failure of common sense on their part. Dozens of other people were doing the same thing at the same time in the same neighborhood.
What a great place for bad people to find victims then. Being naive about the problem or looking at it in an optimistic light might work for people but wont fix a problem. Using common sense will. Going out and getting impaired, walking around in the dark neighbour hoods that contain more sex offenders and violent criminals than anywhere else in seattle other than jail, being alone, and most likely distracted in another way is going to get you victimized. And it is far from busy in the 1600 blk of Summit at 1:45 am on a Monday morning.
Also down below someone stated that he may have just gotten paid. Yeah and just cashed his check at the bank that was open om Sunday. I am just saying there is way more to this story.
Alos I would not label him as “tipsy” based on the circumstances I think he was toast to not know he got STABBED.