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More Details On Possible Machete Attack In the Jungle

By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee August 25, 2010

Seattle police have released the report on an attack on a homeless woman in the Jungle, a wooded area on the northwest side of Beacon Hill, filled with homeless encampments.


Here's the report, redacted by SPD and slightly edited by me:



Officers were called to an assault where the victim had been struck in the head by a machete. A female victim was located at S Beacon Ave and S Holgate Bridge.


The female was bleeding from the right side of her head and holding a t-shirt to her injury. She was alert and talking.


When asked what happened, said that she didn't know who did this to her, but that she heard a male voice say, "Any reason I shouldn't kill you bitch" right before she was struck in the head.


This voice and the suspect came up from behind her at the time and she said that she didn't know or see who did this to her, or which way the suspect may have gone.


[The victim] was walking from the city to her camp...when this happened. She did not know where the assault took place.


After being assaulted, [the victim] went to the complainant's camp near hers to tell him what happened and because he has a phone. The complainant...then called 911.


[Medics] said that it appeared [the victim] was hit in the head by a blunt object rather than being cut by a machete. Her injury was more of a bump on her head with a cut rather than a pure cut.



Before medics transported the woman to the hospital, she told officers she knew the man that attacked her, but wouldn't provide police with more information because "she fears that the suspect will kill her," according to the police report.

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