City Murder by Bus?
Early last evening in downtown Seattle—on Third Avenue between Pine and Stewart streets, to be exact—a female pedestrian was fatally crushed by a Metro bus.
What’s more, it doesn’t seem to have been an accident. According to KIRO 7 News, witnesses reported seeing a man on a bicycle push the pedestrian under the bus. “They were arguing or they were playing and she got pushed under a bus,” said eyewitness Eris Washington to KIRO. And while police wouldn’t confirm the alleged pushing, they did detain a man that witnesses said was responsible for the death, whom police found hiding in a dumpster near the death scene.
Further details come from today’s Seattle Times, which reports the arrest of an unnamed 53-year-old man booked early this morning at King County Jail on suspicion of second-degree manslaughter in connection with the death.
Stay tuned for further details. In the meantime, here’s a stupidly upsetting story from stupidly upsetting Pierce County, where on Tuesday afternoon, a uniformed National Guardsman was brutally attacked by five white males who bashed the Guardsman while repeatedly calling him a baby-killer. Full story here.
Where are all te critical mass posters?
was this a 53 year old, bike messenger wannabe?