An unhoused individual hit a Safeway employee on the head with a metal pole and discharged a fire extinguisher in a parking garage near Northgate to escape arrest on Monday.
At approximately 11 a.m., the Safeway employee approached the homeless man and asked him to move away from the business’s parking garage, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) reported.
The unhoused man became “unhinged” and hit the employee in the forehead with a four-foot-long metal pole, which caused serious injury.
Homeless man uses fire extinguisher blast to escape Seattle Police
As SPD officers arrived, the suspect had just discharged a fire extinguisher inside the garage, making it difficult for officers to see as he fled the scene…