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Case manager ID’d as victim in fatal Belltown stabbing

SEATTLE — Seattle police are investigating a fatal stabbing in the Belltown neighborhood.

It happened shorty after 11 a.m. Monday morning on First Avenue near Blanchard Street, at the Lewiston-Scargo apartment building which is run by Plymouth Housing.

When Seattle Fire medics arrived at the scene, they found the woman dead.

Friends of the victim identified her as Kristin Benson. According to LinkedIn, Benson was a housing case manager for Plymouth Housing Group.

After a search of the neighborhood, police found the suspect and arrested him before 4 p.m. Monday.

Homicide detectives are interviewed the suspect. He was booked into the King County Jail on suspicion of murder.


Belltown stabbing scene