
Students have once again been put on alert due to an incident of violence. Seattle Police Detectives said a man entered a UW-area house and assaulted a resident. Seattle police recently added more patrols in the University District after an uptick in violent crime in the last month. Victims called police after they said a man was inside their home in the 4700 block of 18th Avenue NE around 5 a.m. Sunday.
Seattle Police said they were searching for the U District prowler. SPD officers arrived and identified a person of interest from surveillance footage through images. Police said that a search of the area was not able to locate the man, however. Last week four people were shot outside a bar on University Way Northeast.
That same weekend, a 21-year-old man was hit and killed while a driver was leaving the scene of a different shooting. This is the second weekend that students have received alerts about a violent crime.
The incident also comes after a Seattle man was arrested earlier in the week for the gruesome murder of an Indigenous woman, whose body was found along the Burke Gilman Trail near the UW campus. According to court documents, the man charged lives on the same street as Sunday’s break-in and assault.
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