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Seattle's first 2026 homicide stems from a shooting more than 50 years ago

The story of Joseph Garrett’s murder is more than 50 years in the making. His life ended on Jan. 4, making 71-year-old Garrett Seattle’s first homicide of 2026.
- Stephen Howie
Seattle charges man with assault for slapping, grabbing women from Lime bike

The Seattle City Attorney has charged a 24-year-old man with one count of assault with sexual motivation for grabbing and groping multiple women’s buttocks in downtown Seattle last spring.
- Amy Radil
Man who held himself out as Native American activist sentenced to 46 years for serial rapes

A man who held himself out as a Native American activist was sentenced Wednesday to 46 years in prison for drugging and raping women in a case that inspired calls for changes in Washington state law to prohibit defendants who represent themselves from directly questioning their accusers.
- Associated Press
Victim of unsolved Seattle CHOP killing featured in newly unearthed video

A newly unearthed video has revealed what is likely the last known footage of Antonio Mays Jr. speaking at 2020’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest just days before his death.
- David Gutman / The Seattle Times
Violent crime is on the decline in Washington state and nationwide

Preliminary data suggest that rates for violent and property crimes in Washington state fell in 2025, continuing the decline that began two years ago. That was the big takeaway in a briefing for state lawmakers Thursday.
- Amy Radil
The number of shots fired in King County dropped last summer. Is gun violence on the decline?

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office says the number of shots fired during the third quarter of the year has dropped for a second year in a row.
- Noel Gasca
Seattle’s incoming city attorney Erika Evans promises vigilance on federal interference

Since declaring victory on election night, Erika Evans says she's been busy preparing for a smooth transition.
- Amy Radil
Human remains identified as missing Tulalip woman whose disappearance helped spark movement

Mary Johnson-Davis’s disappearance while walking on the Tulalip Reservation on Nov. 25, 2020 sparked a reward, a documentary film, and fueled a successful movement to create statewide alerts for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Now, the FBI said DNA from human remains found in a remote area in North Snohomish County on June 13, 2025 has been confirmed as matching Johnson-Davis.
- Amy Radil
ICE launches ad campaign to recruit Seattle-area police

TV ads now airing in Seattle are trying to recruit local police to work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Federal prosecutor says Travis Decker, wanted in killings of his 3 daughters, is dead

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to drop the arrest warrant for a former soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters because the U.S. Marshals Service says the man is dead.
- Associated Press

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