SEATTLE — Police are looking for a man who beat, kicked and stomped a legally blind man in the Rainier Valley.
Police said they were flagged down in the 2500 block of Rainier Avenue South on Friday afternoon by a witness and the victim, who uses a red and white cane and can only vaguely make out objects.
Police said the victim was bleeding from the right ear and had a bump on the right side of his head.
The victim told officers he was walking and as he approached a parking lot, he saw what he thought was a car on the sidewalk and used his cane to find the car’s front tire.
As he walked around the car, he yelled at the occupants for stopping the vehicle on the sidewalk.
The man in the car yelled back, claiming the victim hit his car. As the victim walked south, he was hit from behind and a fight began according to a police report.
According to a witness who stopped when he saw the altercation, the victim was hit multiple times, thrown to the ground and then stomped and kicked by the attacker. The witness told officers he tried to break up the fight, but the attacker pulled out a knife and the witness, who had a child with him, returned to his car to grab his phone. It was at that time that he flagged down officers.
The attacker is described as black, 6 feet tall, weighing 250 pounds with a heavy build. He was wearing a red oversized T-shirt and blue jeans. He was with a black woman who was wearing a full-length dress with black and white horizontal stripes.
Another witness said the two were seen getting into a maroon car and driving northbound on Rainer.
Police said a review of dash-camera video showed what appeared to be a 2005 four-door maroon Chrysler Sebring and a couple matching the witnesses’ description are seen walking toward that vehicle.
The attacker remains at large.
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