SEATTLE — An 83-year-old man who was stabbed to death over the weekend in Seattle had called police to report he was being threatened approximately an hour before his death inside a mental health group home, court documents reveal.
The victim, William Wallace, told dispatchers his roommate, 51-year-old Michael Perdew, confronted him with a knife in his hand and said he was going to use it on him, according to an arrest report filed Monday.
Perdew is now being held in the King County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder. He was arrested after an hours-long standoff with the SWAT team at the group home on 84th Street near Aurora Avenue on Saturday…