An investigation is underway after five people were stabbed in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District Friday afternoon.
Authorities are calling it a mass casualty event. It was reported that four men showed up to Harborview Medical Center with stab wounds.
All of them are listed in critical condition.
The fifth person who was stabbed was treated at the hospital and released. According to the SPD, officers found a suspect after witnesses described him and arrested him without incident.
A weapon was recovered in the area, and one knife was still stuck in one of the victims.
Police said the five stabbings occurred over a 38-hour period.
Police detained a possible suspect, who was a 34-year-old man near an abandoned building.
According to investigators, the suspect had a felony warrant for his arrest in the amount of $7,075 for possession of a stolen vehicle. He was armed with a knife, and it was seized as evidence.
He was booked into King County Jail for his warrant.
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