A 42-year-old man has been charged with assault after he allegedly struck the woman with a wood stick on Dec. 5.
SEATTLE — A 42-year-old man is accused of attacking an elderly woman unprovoked in downtown Seattle earlier this month, leaving her with broken facial bones and without vision in one eye, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors charged Fale Vaigalepa Pea with one count of first-degree assault on Dec. 9. He remains in jail on $1 million bail.
According to charging documents, Pea was walking on the sidewalk of 3rd Avenue near James Street behind the 75-year-old victim, who was
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