Police are investigating after two males had been injured in a baseball bat and pickaxe melee at a Yesler Terrace condo constructing on Thursday.
Round 4:30 p.m., the sufferer, a 24-year-old man, left his condo and was strolling out of the constructing when one other tenant, a 45-year-old man, shoulder-checked him and accused him of constructing detrimental statements a couple of member of the family.
The sufferer observed the suspect was holding a pickaxe and was gesturing as if he was going to swing it on the sufferer.
The sufferer retreated to his unit, armed himself with a baseball bat, and once more tried to exit the constructing. He encountered the suspect in a stairwell, and the suspect started swinging the pickaxe at him.
Throughout the combat, the suspect struck the sufferer with the pickaxe, fracturing his arm.
The sufferer swung his bat on the suspect, placing him within the head. Because the suspect fell to the bottom, his pickaxe slipped out of his grasp and onto the ground. Based mostly on the character of the suspect’s head wound, it seems the suspect’s head struck the pickaxe or a step, inflicting important harm.
Following the combat, the suspect returned to his condo the place officers discovered him mendacity on the toilet ground in a pool of blood, apparently from his head harm.
Each males obtained medical assist, and the suspect is at the moment receiving ongoing remedy at Harborview Medical Heart and is underneath hospital guard.
