Alissa Montez’s Instagram warning went viral after she was grabbed on a popular Belltown trail, prompting other women to share similar experiences.
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
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