WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Stabbing in Westwood

12:43 AM: Police and fire are responding to what’s reported to be a stabbing at or near Westwood Village. The victim is at a bus stop in the area. The attacker is described as a white man, blond hair, dressed all in black, 5’9″, heavy build, last seen running westbound on SW Barton, or possibly into Roxhill Park.

12:47 AM: The victim is reported to have a stab wound to the abdomen. Police are calling in a K9 team to help with the search.

1:11 AM: Based on what the K9 team is finding, the search has expanded southward. No word on the victim’s condition, meantime.

1:50 AM: The track grew cold so the K9 search – with a team borrowed from King County SO, since SPD had none available – has ended.

9:04 AM: SFD says the victim is a ~30-year-old man who was in stable condition when taken to the hospital.

NOON: SPD says the victim – who had “several severe lacerations to his hands, upper chest, and left leg” – told officers he was asleep when the attacker stabbed him. If you have any information, call the SPD tip line at 206-233-5000 and refer to case 25-237023.

19 Replies to "WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Stabbing in Westwood"

  • Lisa August 18, 2025 (1:10 am)

    Hearing massive police response over 15 minutes, knew something had to be very wrong.  Hope victim survives and suspect caught.

  • DogMom99 August 18, 2025 (1:11 am)

    I live near 35th and Roxbury and have been hearing near-continuous sirens. Really hoping the victim is ultimately okay.

  • Good neighbor August 18, 2025 (1:14 am)

    Police circling the neighborhood Last thirty minutes and extremely loud sirens hope they find the attacker

  • LoCal August 18, 2025 (1:19 am)

    Police officer parked on Roxybury & 35th for quite sometime. Chirping their alarm and flashing lights for the last 10 min. Wish I knew what the noises meant. 

  • Fletcher August 18, 2025 (1:20 am)

    I could hear a woman calling out for help. I called 911, there were so many sirens in the area. Couldn’t tell which direction the yelling was coming from. Just crazy out there right now. 

    • WSB August 18, 2025 (1:48 am)

      That apparently was a separate incident at 35th/Henderson. They broke someone away to check it out but I don’t know how it turned out.

      • mem August 18, 2025 (7:04 am)

        I was returning a book early last Tuesday morning at the library at 35th and Henderson. There was an extremely upset, aggressively yelling large man at the entrance. I’ve seen him several times and it appears he lives behind the building in the alley or nearby. A police car had stopped in the street with its lights on but the officer did not get out. The whole incident was quite disturbing and I am not surprised something like this happened at this corner. I hope the woman is ok. Btw, think timeline should all be a.m.

      • Fletcher August 18, 2025 (10:09 am)

        I told them that it was at 35th and Henderson and I told them I didn’t think it had anything to do with what was going on down the block, but I hope everything worked out. Anytime you hear a woman calling out for help in the middle of the night. It is not a good situation. 

  • Ahguy August 18, 2025 (1:24 am)

    1:16am hearing cop flip on siren, but now cycling siren, somewhere near 35th and Roxbury.

    • WSB August 18, 2025 (1:47 am)

      That’s because they were using a K9. Should have stopped now.

  • Momof3 August 18, 2025 (1:41 am)

    They have an officer sitting at 35th and roxbury 

    • WSB August 18, 2025 (1:49 am)

      That was part of “containment” – while a search is under way they station officers on the periphery too.

  • Rhonda August 18, 2025 (2:07 am)

    Fuzz now cruising Arbor Heights with spotlights and occasional siren blasts. 

  • Watertowerjim August 18, 2025 (6:48 am)

    This could have happened in Medina, Magnolia, Sammamish, etc.

  • Barton Boy August 18, 2025 (7:25 am)

    Someone tried to break into our car in the alley right off 21st & barton at 1:00 exactly.  The alarm went off really loud i popped up and saw a male with a slow gait moving sort of quickly to the south through the alley.  Medium build baggyish clothes shorter than 6’.  Probably unrelated but i do remember the sirens from this event waking me up too a bit earlier.

    • HS August 18, 2025 (10:22 am)

      It might be worth sending the video, if you have it, to the police and reference that it may be the perpetrator from the nearby stabbing. Or at least reporting it as possibly related so the police have an opportunity to check surrounding cameras.

  • BDR August 18, 2025 (3:22 pm)

    Horrible that someone was stabbed. To stab a sleeping person who clearly tried to fend of the attacker once awake, seems extra cruel and vicious. I hope they find the person before someone else is hurt or stabbed.

  • Westwood neighbor August 18, 2025 (9:21 pm)

    There was a man that tried to open our house door at 6:40am baggy clothes white male

  • James Wire August 19, 2025 (3:07 pm)

    Looks kind of like the guy I’ve seen a few times around the trash strewn encampment in the undeveloped property a block east of the old Staples building.

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