Customers and nearby businesses are rallying to support the owner of J’s Quick Stop after a brutal beating during a shoplifting incident this week at the Bellevue Ave neighborhood market.
Local gym Cap Hill Fitness has launched a fundraiser to help support the recovery of Charlie Kim:
Hello everyone, my name is Clinton Davis and I started this fundraiser for a dear friend of mine, Charlie Kim. Charlie owns J’s Quick Stop, which happens to be next door to my gym. Charlie was viciously assaulted on September 12th by a shoplifter. Charlie will need time to recuperate and will unlikely be able to run his store. Anything you can give to help for his medical expenses would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Seattle Fire was called to the store to treat Kim for injuries in a nighttime assault and called for help from Seattle Police to investigate the assault. SPD has launched a robbery investigation in connection with the case.
J’s Quick Stop is located on the street level of the 2001-built Hawthorne Apartments. City business records indicate the market has operated as J’s since 2009.
CHS will check for more information about the incident from SPD and will update as we learn more.
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Absolutely disgusting. I used to live right there and the number of unsavory things happening on that block has been rising compared to years ago. I hope these slimeballs are caught. Sorry this happened.
Thank you very much for sharing this.
Thanks for leading the charge Clinton. Been going there since they opened and they’ve always been the best
In Seattle, why do we always let them win?
Budget priorities, understaffed and underfunded rehabs and prisons and courts and PDs, Brown v. Plata, no one wants to pay the taxes it would take to fix all that, politicians fighting to tank any halfway decent compromise they can’t take credit for, politicians more interested in scoring points and getting media coverage than doing the job they were elected to do and then use our hyper-partisan politics to convince their districts to re-elect them despite not getting diddly done…
I find this not only shocking and awful , it was something that really hit me hard and saddened me . It’s my local bodega , and Charlie and his wife are the nicest people you could ever have the pleasure of meeting. I can’t comment here on what I wish could happen to the individual (s) that had the audacity to commit such a vile act of cowardice. I would love to see justice here at the very least .
I hope everybody who favors permissive criminal justice reform and letting feral felons like the ones that attacked this storeowner loose opens your wallets and contributes freely. Your decisions to enable repeat criminals are what put this shop owner at risk. Your DEI and Social Justice enabled this crime. I hope you’re satisfied with the result of your enablement.
Wow some serious MAGA rhetoric here. “Feral felons” just say the slurs you want to say, why not?
And what term would you prefer we use to describe the low life who attacked a local business owner?
DEI and social justice have nothing to do with this. Stop using a horrific attack to make some stupid Trumpian point.
Agreed. And no, it’s not “Trumpian” lol. A lot of us centrist Democrats feel the same way about this “criminal justice reform” nonsense.
Guess what, you aren’t a “centrist” you’re more aligned with Trump than you think. Own it.
Oh please. DEI has nothing to do with this, just a buzzword MAGAs love to bat about with no understanding of what it actually is (for starters, it has nothing to do with the justice system).
That said, even as a long time liberal vehemently opposed to guns, if I had to work a job like this, at a location like that, I would be doing gun training and get a concealed carry permit. That really saddens me, but it might be the only thing that deters someone as crazy as this. I’ve had to size up to some crazy lately, and it’s no fun (and I’m trained in martial arts). Thankfully it was peacefully resolved, but still leaves me wondering what might have been…