An ordinary bar faux-pas rapidly turned bloody in Madison Park at 1:31 am on May 12. Three men and one woman exited a bar onto the sidewalk near the intersection of 42nd Avenue East and East Madison Street, carrying recently-purchased bottles of Bud Light and ignoring a request from an employee to bring them back inside, according to a Seattle police report. A cook at the bar who had overheard this exchange decided to follow them westbound on Madison, only to have one of the suspects, "with his shirt off, jump out of the bushes and confront him."

After the cook repeated the request to bring the beers back, the shirtless suspect allegedly threw a punch, prompting the other employee from the bar to jump into the fray, knocking everyone back into the bushes where they "wrestled for a while." Just as things began to mellow out, though, the cook looked up to see one of the precious Bud Light bottles being swung into his face by another member of the group. Shirtless guy then allegedly struck the cook "a couple times," and all four suspects took off down 42nd in the southbound direction.

The cook sustained a 1-inch cut to the temple and a few smaller cuts, the report states. Though none of the suspects were located, they had foolishly paid with a debit card prior to the incident, enabling the bar to give police the name and card number of one of the suspects. Additionally, police found a large shard of the weaponized beer bottle with "noticeable fingerprints on it," which was then packaged as evidence and submitted for fingerprint analysis.