Arrest made in fatal stabbing at Capitol Hill light rail station

[maxsolomon]

SEATTLE — An arrest was made Monday in connection to a deadly stabbing at the Capitol Hill light rail station over the weekend.

According to the Seattle Police Department, a 26-year-old man was arrested in Eatonville. He was booked into King County Jail.

The neighborhood is grieving the loss of the victim, a chef at the well-known Capitol Hill restaurant, Harry's Fine Foods.

Police said shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday, the 37-year-old was stabbed multiple times in the Capitol Hill light rail station. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/community-grieves-loss-capitol-hill-chef-stabbed-to-death-light-rail-station/281-e6fa9d83-ff26-47fe-8207-c97da3291592

This one is scary - my daughter's light rail stop, my old neighborhood. Apparently there was an "altercation" in the packed station, and the chef was stabbed in the neck and pushed off the platform, then prevented from climbing out. He bled out there, the station was closed, the line was closed. Straight up murders like that rarely happen in Seattle.

The stabber, one Shawn Patrick Moore, ran off to Eatonville, which is in the far SE of the region near Mt. Rainier. He's going to turn out to be a tweaker.

[LisaM]

1. There was an incident at the International District stop recently too.

That's my stop for work.

I ride the Light Rail frequently. I have to - they have systematically deleted all my bus routes. I don't like it. I don't feel safe. The elevators are almost always full of urine and sometimes worse. This is not an exaggeration. Three out of four elevators I used last week had puddles of pee. Security is almost non existent, though their obnoxious "Fare Ambassadors" frequently demand proof of payment from morning commuters. There are always homeless people sleeping on the cars, and sometimes the wait at night is lengthy and we're essentially trapped 300 feet underground with no easy egress if a nutter shows up.

Worse, the agency won't admit any of this and dismisses it as right wing fear mongering. It's a real problem and they can't deal with it if they won't acknowledge it.

[maxsolomon]

2. The one where the crazy asshole pushed a lady down the stairs? That was almost a year ago.

In my experience, the issues on Light Rail aren't quite as severe as you say. It's generally safe even if there's squalor.

The homeless in the back seats mostly keep to themselves. They want to sleep. I haven't seen pee in the elevators at University St. for a while now. I also see security there most times, but I don't ride late at night.

International District could definitely use a refresh - or at a minimum, a complete power washing. It's grungy.

[LisaM]

3. No, this was just a week or two ago.

I haven't noticed it in those elevators, but I see it all the time at Northgate and sometimes in the International District. Saw pee in the Northgate elevator last night, as a matter of fact, coming back from the airport, where I was panhandled after walking the half mile from baggage claim.

I get that these things happen, but it's so fucking constant and a far cry from how it was on the buses I used to ride. I HAVE to use transit. Why ST has chosen to make it so unpleasant is beyond me. We pay all this money and the user experience has gotten consistently worse and they seem in complete denial.

Don't get me started on the accessibility issues. I hardly ever see a wheelchair user on Light Rail.

[maxsolomon]

4. Wow, surprised there was panhandling at the Seatac station.

IDK that ST is making the Usex unpleasant deliberately. There's a massive homeless and opiate crisis and they bear the brunt, along with the libraries.

[LisaM]

5. I think they are ignoring the problem.

It's difficult to travel by myself all day - first a two hour bus ride to the airport (Michigan Flyer, very nice), then the plane ride, then SeaTac's slow baggage claim, then back up to the parking lot, then the half mile trudge to the Light Rail, then the woman asking me for money (I knew she was lying but I gave her money to get rid of her), then the ONE HOUR ride which would be 25 minutes by car, with the final touch being pee on the elevator. It's exhausting. It was faster taking the 194/41 bus combo, and it also felt safer.