King County prosecutors have now formally charged both suspects accused in the brutal downtown Seattle beating of a 77-year-old man who had just stepped off a bus near Third Avenue and Pike Street, an attack captured on now-viral surveillance video recorded by the Seattle Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center cameras — the same camera network Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has previously criticized and advocated shutting down over concerns the footage could be accessed by federal immigration authorities.
On Thursday, prosecutors charged 27-year-old Jes’Sean Tyrell Elion with Assault in the Second Degree in King County Superior Court, alleging he and co-defendant Ahmed Abdullahi Osman acted together in the April 19 attack on Richard Vera.
Osman, 29, had already been charged on April 30 with the same felony offense. Prosecutors say the two men randomly attacked Vera as he walked home after getting off a bus downtown…