A suspect was arrested on Friday after 10 people were wounded in a two-day stabbing spree in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.
Local authorities believe at least nine of the attacks were committed by the same man.
Five of those stabbings happened earlier on Friday in a roughly four-block area, according to the Seattle Police Department.
Four of those victims were taken to Harborview Medical Center and were in critical condition, a hospital spokesperson told The Associated Press. The fifth victim was treated at the scene and released.
Five other people were stabbed in the same part of town on Thursday, though one of those incidents appeared to be a robbery. Authorities aren’t sure if that stabbing was related to the other seemingly random violence that played out over a bloody 38-hour period.
Thursday’s victims included a 52-year-old woman who was stabbed eight times around 1 a.m., according to Seattle’s Fox 13. She appears to have been the first of the alleged assailant’s victims.
“It is my understanding that everyone is alive,” Deputy Chief Eric Barden told reporters.
Cops were given a description of a male suspect who was found near the stretch where the assaults occurred. An undescribed weapon was found nearby, while a knife was knife lodged into one of the victims, police said.
They have not released the suspect’s name.
With News Wire Services
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