A maniac was arrested for stabbing nine people in a string of random attacks over the course of two days in Seattle, Washington, according to cops.
Over a 38-hour period the unnamed suspect knifed the victims in a roughly four-block area in the city’s Chinatown-International District, according to the Seattle Police Department.
The random stabbings sent four of the victims to Harborview Medical Center.
All those patients entered the hospital in critical condition — and two remain in critical condition as of Friday night, according to the Associated Press. One other victim was upgraded to satisfactory and another to serious condition as of Friday.
One of those victims, a 53-year-old man, was stabbed in the neck and was bleeding heavily before receiving treatment, according to police.
Cops followed a trail of blood left by the victim as part of their investigation, according to SPD Blotter.
Seattle police say the assailant stabbed five people on Friday and is suspected in four more stabbings that happened in the same neighborhood on Thursday.
Deputy Chief Eric Barden cited similar suspect descriptions and crime profiles as reason to believe the same man was responsible for the attacks on both days, according to the AP.
“This incident was apparently one individual over a 38-hour period of time committing random assaults,” Barden said at the scene of the crime Friday, according to the outlet.
SPD said that they found the suspect due to witness descriptions. He was found with a weapon nearby, the AP reported.
On Thursday, a 53-year-old woman, a 32-year-old man, and a 37-year-old man were all stabbed multiple times in the Chinatown neighborhood, according to cops.
“The stabbings in Little Saigon and the Chinatown-International District are horrific, appalling, and shouldn’t occur anywhere in our city,” Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in a statement.
“Every person deserves to feel and be safe, and I remain committed to using every tool available to improve the safety of Little Saigon and the historic Chinatown-International District for all residents, workers, and visitors,” the mayor wrote.
A tenth stabbing on Thursday night may also be part of the madman’s spree. Cops say an assailant tried to steal a phone from a 60-year-old man sitting in his car. The assailant swung the knife for the victim’s chest — but he was able to ward it off with his hand.
