SEATTLE — A Seattle woman says she was grabbed and nearly pulled off a popular running trail near Olympic Sculpture Park in broad daylight Wednesday morning, and her social media warning to other women has since gone viral.
Alissa Montez, 29, says she runs the well-traveled Belltown waterfront path almost every day. On Wednesday around 11 a.m., she says a man she initially mistook for a construction worker seized her by the arm.
“He grabbed me, yanked onto my arm and my clothes and tried to pull me,” Montez said. “And then I yanked away and was screaming at him and just kept running.” She says the man retreated into nearby bushes after she broke free…