LAKE STEVENS – A 43-year-old Mukilteo man was charged Wednesday with first-degree assault for allegedly beating his ex-girlfriend in the head with a bat that had a nail protruding from its end.
The attack left a woman brain damaged and mutilated, according to charging papers filed by deputy prosecutor George Appel.
The defendant, Tommy Kevin Dawson, has not been found despite an extensive police search, Appel said.
A warrant asking $10,000 bail was issued Wednesday in Snohomish County Superior Court.
The attack happened Jan. 13 at a Lake Stevens apartment in the 2500 block of Grade Road, where the victim had been staying. The son of the apartment’s resident eventually got control of the bat and chased the attacker away, Appel said.
The attacker used a 33-inch long Louisville Slugger bat with a lead core, Appel said.
A Snohomish County judge on Wednesday found probable cause to detain two Kamiak High School students for investigation of felony assault.
The boys, both 16, were arrested Tuesday for investigation of beating Kamiak freshman Zaiah Boone.
They were booked into the Denney Juvenile Justice Center on suspicion of second-degree assault.
A judge on Wednesday set bail at $500 for one teen and $250 for the other.
Zaiah, 15, was beaten across the street from the high school as more than 100 students watched, police said. He was left with a broken bone in his face.
Zaiah told police he had expected to fight one person to settle a dispute over a girl. Instead, he was repeatedly hit in the face by two older boys inside a car, according to police.
The suspects, one from Mukilteo and the other from Lynnwood, wore red bandanas wrapped around their hands.
The bandanas had no significance and there wasn’t any evidence to indicate that the fight was gang-related, according to investigators.
A fire on Wednesday gutted an upper-floor apartment and displaced a family.
No one was hurt in the fire at the Park Ridge Apartments, located in the 1000 block of W. Casino Road. The blaze caused about $100,000 damage, said Matt Keller, an acting Everett fire battalion chief.
Firefighters arrived just after 1 a.m. to find the apartment engulfed in flames. The fire was quickly extinguished, but it destroyed the apartment, Keller said.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation. It was unclear if the family was home at the time.
The Snohomish County Chapter of the American Red Cross provided assistance to the family.
Police on Wednesday arrested a man in connection with a jewelry heist from earlier this month.
The man also may be responsible for a number of other burglaries in nearby cities, Mountlake Terrace police Sgt. Doug Hansen said.
Police believe the man stole a large amount of valuable jewelry from a Mountlake Terrace home. Investigators were able to track some of the jewelry to local pawn shops.
Detectives arrested the man, 21, as he was trying to flee from a balcony.
Mountlake Terrace police are working with other departments to investigate other burglaries linked to the suspect.
The Wild Sky Wilderness is one step closer to a reality.
Legislation already approved by the U.S. House of Representatives made it through a key U.S. Senate committee Wednesday.
All that’s left is for the bill is for the full Senate to approve it, which has happened three times before, and for President Bush to sign it, which he has said he will do.
“The finish line is finally in sight for all of us who have worked over the years to protect the Wild Sky area and improve recreational opportunities in our state,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
From Herald staff reports
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