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• Baseball bat assault: A 40-year-old Auburn man is facing two counts of second degree assault in what police say was a brutal baseball bat attack on two women he had a confrontation with in the street amid the last call crowds at Broadway and Pike. The King County Prosecutor’s office has charged Tomas Alicea-Centeno in the early Sunday, February 13th incident that sent one woman to the hospital with a head laceration and left the second with a fractured nose. According to police and the court documents, the dispute began around 1:45 AM after the women left nearby club Q. As one of their friends had to stop to vomit in the street after their night of drinking, the victims told police a man later identified as Alicea-Centeno approached the ill woman and yelled at her to “get the fuck up.” Thinking he was about to grab their friend, the women told police they pushed Alicea-Centeno and a fight ensued with the suspect allegedly punching one of the women in the face, fracturing her nose. The other woman told police she grabbed Alicea-Centeno’s glasses and threw them down the street as a crowd began to form at the Pike and Broadway intersection. The victims told police Alicea-Centeno left then returned in a vehicle, getting out of the driver’s seat with a baseball bat, and shouting, “Are you the bitch that broke my glasses?” According to the charging documents, the suspect then hit the other woman in the head with the bat, sending her falling to the pavement temporarily unconscious. He then allegedly turned on the woman who had already been punched in the face, landing blows to her head as she fought the attack off. Police say a friend of the victims then tackled the suspect and held him down before being pulled away by others in the crowd, allowing Alicea-Centeno to drive away. Police say they immediately pulled Alicea-Centeno over as he drove from the scene and placed him under arrest. Prosecutors say the arrest came as Alicea-Centeno was already facing charges of fourth degree assault from a November incident. He is free on $100,000 bail and has yet to enter a plea for the charges stemming from the Capitol Hill assault.
• Central District bus stop shooting: Police say they found the suspect crying and cradling his victim in a Saturday evening shooting at a Central District bus stop last weekend. According to SPD, officers arrived to the 6 PM incident near 23rd and Jackson and found a 59-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his thigh, along with the suspect, who was crying and holding onto the victim. Police say the victim told them the suspect and a woman came up behind him and began assaulting him at the bus stop and that the suspect pulled out a handgun. As the two began to struggle over the weapon, it went off, striking him in the leg, the victim said. The victim told police the woman picked up the gun and also took some of his possessions and fled the area. The suspect was booked into King County jail for investigation of assault and robbery. Police said the woman could not be immediately found or identified.
• Police cruiser collision: An East Precinct officer collided with another driver while speeding to a high priority call early Wednesday, according to SPD. Police say the officer was responding “lights and sirens to a priority 1 call” and struck the other vehicle at the intersection of 12 Av and E Cherry, causing severe damage to both vehicles. The officer did not sustain any significant injuries. “It was not apparent that the other driver sustained any significant injuries, SPD reports. “Alcohol/drugs were not believed to be a factor in the collision.”
• Van chase: A high speed chase through the streets of Seattle included a race across Capitol Hill Wednesday night as SPD says it was pursuing two suspected catalytic converter thieves who reportedly shot at a man after being caught in the act in South Seattle. According to SPD, the chase crossed the city from 1700 6th Avenue South and eventually included police pursuing the duo’s getaway vehicle down Madison and eventually onto I-5 before Washington State Patrol troopers joined the pursuit and used spike strips and a “vehicle maneuver” to disable the suspects’ van near Auburn. Police took the man and woman into custody, recovered the handgun, ammunition and 29 grams of methamphetamine from the van which also turned out to be stolen.
• Cal Anderson crisis incident: A woman was treated for hypothermia after a long standoff near the Cal Anderson reflection pool on the night of February 14th, according to police:
  

  On 02-14-2022 at 1737 hours, officers responded to a report of a female in crisis at Cal Anderson Park. The female in crisis climbed into the water fountain at the park and a witness reported that she had been there for 45 minutes prior to police arrival. When officers arrived, they observed the subject possibly under the influence of narcotics and in a hazardous position. The subject was standing in a pool of water and under a running cascade of water. She was also in an elevated position on a concrete barrier with a dangerous drop. The outside temperature was approximately 45 degrees. Officers began negotiating with the female, but she appeared to be in a confused and depressed state and refused to come down from the fountain. Officers saw signs of hypothermia setting in and asked for Seattle Fire to stage as well as AMR. Sgt arrived on scene and after observing no compliance for 15-20 minutes, requested that CRT or HNT respond to the scene and a negotiator arrived a short time later to assist in negotiations. For a short period, another citizen also in crisis jumped into the water with the first and tried to interfere with negotiations. When this second female tried to yank the first crisis victim off an elevated position, officers moved in to remove the citizen. Once the interfering citizen was removed an officer waded into the cold water and began to negotiate with the person in crisis from a short distance away. The crisis subject expressed that she was so moved by this act that she agreed to step off from the elevated position and allowed the officer to lead her out of the fountain. The crisis subject was taken by ambulance to Harborview Medical Center for medical treatment for Hypothermia and for the ITA. Negotiator 1 monitored this incident.

• Bias arrest: Police arrested a man who busted the window of a Nagle Pl business and use a homophobic slur after he was caught urinating on the building. According to the SPD report on the Valentine’s arrest, the incident unfolded around 11:30 PM when an employee of the business yelled at the man to stop peeing on the building and the suspect “yelled homophobic slurs at the caller, threatened to assault the caller, and broke the business window,” according to SPD. The caller told police he believed he was targeted due to his perceived sexual orientation The suspect was located and arrested a short distance away.
• Pipe assault: Police were called Saturday night, February 12th around 11 PM to E Pike and Summit after one person was hit in the head with a pipe in “an altercation that occurred between the suspects and the victim in a nearby parking lot which became physical in front of the victim’s apartment,” according to police. Police say the victim’s friend threw a table off a balcony when he saw his friend on the ground being kicked by two subjects but that didn’t stop the attack involving a lead pipe. The victim suffered a 3-inch laceration and was driven to the hospital by friends. There were no immediate arrests.
• 74-year-old pedestrian hit by 74-year-old driver: A Friday, February 11th collision near 23rd and Jackson sent a 74-year-old pedestrian to the hospital and ended up with a 74-year-old driver suspected of DUI. According to the SPD report on the incident, the pedestrian was struck by the driver in the 2400 block of S Jackson around 9 PM. “An eastbound driver had stopped to allow the pedestrian to cross, however, when the pedestrian began to cross the westbound lane, he was struck by the female driver,” SPD reports. The man who was hit was transported to Harborview Medical Center with non life threatening injuries. Police say the woman driving the car was evaluated and arrested for DUI-Vehicular Assault but was later released when the victim’s injuries “did not appear to be as severe as originally reported,” according to police. The drive still faces lesser charges related to the collision.
• First Hill standoff: Gunfire brought police to the Plymouth on First Hill supportive housing facility in the 700 block of Cherry late on Friday, February 11th. SPD says its Hostage Negotiation Team along with SWAT were able to take a suspect into custody without “serious incident” after the resident reportedly fired a weapon inside the building. The suspect was booked into King County Jail following the standoff with SWAT and eventual arrest.

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