West Seattle Crime Watch: Fairmount Springs attack arrest

Just got word from Southwest Precinct that there has been an arrest in connection with the May 8th attack that left a Fairmount Springs woman badly hurt. The case raised so much concern, there was a special neighborhood meeting about it a few days later, with precinct commander Capt. Steve Paulsen and City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen in attendance (here’s our coverage). Precinct operations Lt. Pierre Davis tells WSB an arrest was made just before 5 pm yesterday: “Our detectives did a fantastic job with this case. The arrest warrant was served on the suspect without incident.” We are working to get more details about the arrest, the suspect, and the circumstances of the case, which were all something of a mystery back in May.

ADDED SATURDAY MORNING: Inquiries with police and prosecutors on Friday afternoon didn’t yield much, but overnight we did get a bit of extra information from SW Precinct Lt. Alan Williams, who says the information he could access shows that the suspect (whose name we still don’t know, so we can’t check his/her status through the jail register, and there are way too many people booked for assault/burglary type charges for anyone to stand out as the likely arrestee) “was located in the 1000 block of 4th (Avenue) South and taken into custody without incident.” Because of government closures for the Monday holiday, we don’t expect to be able to get more information before Tuesday.

4 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Fairmount Springs attack arrest"

  • CandrewB July 1, 2011 (2:41 pm)

    Cool

  • Sherry July 1, 2011 (3:06 pm)

    Yeah!!!! Just had a long talk with her this am and she is doing as well as can be expected considering what she went thru. Slowly but surely, mentally and and physically recovering. Catching up on reading back copies of New York Times and gardening. She sends to all who were concerned about her great appreciation and love for our community.

  • ohmygosh July 4, 2011 (1:48 pm)

    Hooray!! Good work SPD! Be very interesting to find out a little more about who did this horrible attack.

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