Seattle Suspect Allegedly Used Wooden Stake To Smash 8 Vehicles In Rampage

A Seattle man is facing charges after allegedly going on a rampage and smashing the windows of several parked cars, amounting to nearly $20,000 in damage, police said.

The Seattle Police Department said officers were called to the 100 block of South Washington Street shortly before 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9. They arrived to find multiple cars with their windshields smashed, and some also had their rear windows smashed.

Witnesses reported the suspect walked from Occidental Park and used a tree branch and a wooden stake to smash the cars he passed while walking westbound on South Washington Street toward Alaskan Way South.

A short time later, officers located the suspect, described only as a 54-year-old man, and arrested him. He was booked into the King County Jail on eight counts of malicious mischief in the second degree.

In total, police found eight damaged vehicles, and worked to locate and notify the owners. Officers recovered a tree branch on the 100 block of South Washington Street, which witnesses say the suspect used. They also found “a large wooden stake with glass shards embedded in it” on the 90 block of South Washington Street.

Police estimate the total damages to be nearly $20,000.