Posted on 05/05/2022 7:15:12 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Frustrated business owners are demanding action in the wake of a violent and disturbing attack last month by a man at a notorious homeless encampment in SoDo in which the suspect allegedly used an ax, pole and a wooden plank to attack his victim.
Julian Brassea—Caballero, 43, has now been charged with assault in connection with the overnight beating on April 29 at the camp, located at 3rd Ave. S. and S. Walker Street. As of Thursday, he remained at the King County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bon
Prosecutors and the judge agreed to the high bail to keep the accused attacker off the streets. He is expected back in court on May 16.
The latest attack comes as city leaders have finally acknowledged rising crime near encampments. The vicious ax attack is disturbing but not surprising for business owners.
“There has been this overall feeling of lawlessness and our businesses for a long time have felt completely abandoned and ignored,” said Erin Goodman, executive director of the SoDo Business Improvement Area. “While not everyone living in these encampments is involved in criminal activity, the encampment themselves are dangerous.”
According to court documents, Brassea—Caballero busted into the tent where the victim was asleep before hitting him in the head with an ax and then beating him with a pipe and plywood.
A few days later, someone burned down the accused attacker’s tent at the same encampment.
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Goodman said she's been pushing for action for years.
“This area that we’re standing in has not had any interaction with social workers or the city in two years,” Goodman. “And it has developed into an unsafe situation for everyone involved.”
According to court documents, Brassea—Caballero’s “intent was clear, telling the victim multiple times that he was going to kill him or take him out.”
Court documents also show he was acting “out of control” and “delusional” before the attack.
The suspect's criminal history includes 17 arrests, a felony assault conviction in 2019, several misdemeanor convictions for assault and assault with sexual motivation.
Not too far from where the ax attack, another incident was reported in which a woman repeatedly stabbed a man at their encampment on 13th Ave. South.
He fired back at the woman with an AK 47 type rifle which was later confiscated by police.
People have access to guns more, and pretty much everyone has a knife,” said interim Seattle police Chief Adrian Diaz. “So, when we’re seeing assaults, it’s resulting in some level of weapons in these encampments.”
KOMO News recently asked Chief Diaz what’s being done to fight the rising crimes, especially now that city leaders have directly tied them to encampments.
“We’re creating teams like the unified care team that the city is creating, making sure we’re giving people resources,” said Chief Diaz. “But at the end of the day we have to deal with some of the criminal activity and public safety issues that are in many of these encampments, and we’ve got to clean that up.”
Businesses say they’re optimistic, but the city needs to take action fast.
Breaking news—
Communists demand someone do something about Communism.
Eventually vigilante justice will be what domesticated democrat s holes. People will only take so much.
Wow. The were just unlucky that the two police officers left in the city happened to be close by. When they get the police department fully defunded, then they won’t be interrupted by some nosy police officers.
I miss Guy Caballero on SCTV
(There has been this overall feeling of lawlessness)
Weird how voting Marxist Socialist Democrat does that.
“He fired back at the woman with an AK 47 type rifle which was later confiscated by police.”
And? This whack job just cranked off a few AK rounds in the middle of the business district and all the cops did was take her gun?
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One of the funniest and clever shows ever.
It was great
Jim Staahl was in ‘Spies Like Us’
Matt Frewer was one of the soldiers firing into the watery pit during training.
Stupid voters elect stupid people. That is how you get “Seattle.”
usually axe attacks are violent, unless they are at a peaceful protest of course
Washington is known for voter fraud.
their governor tried to make it illegal to even claim there was voter fraud.
their Rino in charge of election integrity was hired by the Biden administration
This is what happens when people who are not landowners or in the militia are allowed to vote.
I wonder what everyone expected to happen?
Oh they are so smart! While homeless people are wreaking havoc, beating, stabbing, shooting; the government is creating “care” teams.
Morons. Absolute pathetic morons.
It seems the deplorables who always lived on the other side of the tracks west of town have been shoved to the left coast, and only a few of us are into genocide (D).
So my thought is to put them on cruise ships for a free relocation to Delaware where they can disembark and find encampments for their new lives.
Until they get moved to the west side of town, again.
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