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Fight Over Crack Leads to Stabbing on Beacon Hill

By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee August 13, 2010

Police arrested a man at his Beacon Hill home last week and recovered a bloody knife from his kitchen after he allegedly stabbed a woman who showed up to his house without the drugs she had promised him.


At 6:00 on August 7th, the suspect asked the victim if she could get him some crack cocaine, according to a police report.


The victim made some phone calls and set up a meeting with a dealer to buy some crack, but the dealer never showed up.


When the woman went to the suspect's home on 15th Ave S and Beacon Ave S without any crack, the two got into a fight


The man apparently became so angry, the he stabbed the victim in the face with a knife. The woman also told police the suspect took her cell phone.


Police recovered a bloody knife from the man's kitchen and took it into evidence. Police booked the man into the King County Jail for assault.

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