The Seattle Police Departments says a man was arrested for a hatchet attack that sent his neighbor to the hospital at First Hill’s Cambridge Apartments Sunday afternoon.

Police and Seattle Fire were called to the Union Street apartment building above I-5 just after 2:30 PM to the reported assault. As crews treated the victim in the building’s lobby, police were able to take the suspect into custody inside his apartment without incident.

SPD says officers located the “hatchet/knife under the mattress in the living room.” The 50-year-old suspect was arrested and booked for investigation of first degree assault.

The victim was transported to Harborview in serious condition.

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