A woman was attacked on 10/9, at approximately 3:30 pm on the main Interlaken Boulevard road.
The woman said she was choked very hard until she passed out. She said she thought she was going to die. The attack happened on the main paved road and not on the trails. The only description she could give police was that he is a black man who was wearing an orange hoody.
Please pass this along to anyone else you know who walks in the Interlaken Park area. The attacker was gone before the woman regained consciousness, but he may keep prowling in the area.
Q13Fox, Capitol Hill Seattle Blog and The Seattle Times have additional details, updates and video coverage the attack.
If you have any information about this case, please call 911 and ask to speak with an officer.
Lionel Job says
While we can assume that the attack that occurred yesterday in Interlaken Park will not repeat itself, it adds to the feeling of insecurity in the neighborhood. It’s only last week that drug addicts were evicted from the MOHAI building which had supposedly become a shooting alley.
We have here the illustration of a problem. Public areas that are not frequented sufficiently attract unsavory or downright dangerous behavior.
Please think about this as WSDOT is putting together a plan that will include a 200ft tunnel which they envision as the “safest” crossing of 520 for pedestrians. Demand at grade or above grade crossing in full view. The current plan is incomplete and unsafe. We need safe access to the UW and to the Light Rail Station for everyone, safe access to the library and the school from Shelby/Hamlin and not just a “safe” tunnel for male cyclists who don’t have much to fear.
We also need to encourage the city to redevelop Interlaken park as the bike route it was meant to be. We need lighting, we need a safe crossing of 24th Ave E. and we simply need more people using this route and using the park in general. It’s a great city resource, a unique green belt in the middle of the city, a key part of the Olmsted park system, which with higher density on Capitol Hill should be better developed as a leisure destination for everyone in Seattle.
It’s a matter of safety.