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Two people were attacked on light-rail trains in the past week, one stabbed and the other clubbed on the head with a rock, authorities have confirmed.
The first occurred Friday afternoon at Sodo Station, when one man attacked another using a large rock, striking blows to the head that caused bleeding, Sound Transit spokesperson John Gallagher said Thursday morning.
King County sheriff’s deputies, who provide transit police services, arrived within six minutes and searched the area, according to sheriff’s spokesperson Zoe Birkbeck. No suspect was found. The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center.
Then around 5:45 a.m. Sunday, a 31-year-old man was stabbed multiple times on a train at Angle Lake Station, Sound Transit confirmed. He was taken to Harborview.
Witnesses to that incident said a verbal argument between a rider and a vagrant escalated to violence, the Sheriff’s Office said. Transit police were in the station’s parking garage and rushed over, but the assailant fled, Birkbeck said.
The two assaults follow a July 21 knife attack at Othello Station that left a 51-year-old man in serious condition.