SEATTLE, Wash. — A woman was stabbed multiple times and hit with a sledgehammer after a party in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood on Friday morning.
Seattle police arrived to the scene around 9:15 a.m. near the intersection of Palatine Ave. N. and N. Market Street to find paramedics already treating the woman.
She appeared to have multiple stab wounds to her upper body and a wound on her head that she was was from being hit with a sledgehammer, SPD said.
The victim told officers that she had been partying with the suspect, another woman and three men in an apartment off N. 39th St. early this morning, SPD said.
She said that she, the suspect and the three men left the apartment in her vehicle and went to a nearby alley on Palatine Ave. N. The woman said this is where the assault happened, according to SPD.
The victim was treated at the scene and taken to Harborview Medical Center.
Her vehicle was found a short time later near Whitman Ave. N. and N. 39th St. with a bloody sledgehammer inside and the keys in the ignition, police said.
Police were unable to find the three men or the suspect.
Anyone with information is asked to call Seattle Police Department Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
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