Subway driver killed in stabbing attack on bus in Seattle’s University District

SEATTLE- A King County Metro driver is dead after he was stabbed on the bus he was riding in the University District.

It happened around 3 a.m. Wednesday on the bus in the 4100 block of University Way NE, near the University of Washington (UW) campus, according to a fire record from the Seattle Police Department (SPD).

Video from the crime scene showed the bus cordoned off with police tape and officers searching the area.

Investigators said the 59-year-old driver made it a few steps to a nearby alley where he collapsed. When officers arrived, they found a man with stab wounds to the chest.

Seattle Fire Department paramedics arrived and determined the driver was dead at the scene.

An SPD spokesman said the driver was stabbed after a fight on the bus.

Police are searching for the suspect, described as a man, 6 feet 2 inches tall, 1 inch tall and wearing a blue jacket. He reportedly left in an alley heading north.

Seattle police officers and officers from the King County Sheriff’s Office used a K-9 to search for the suspect, but he was not found.

Police cordoned off the area until SPD homicide and crime scene investigators arrived to collect evidence.

If you have any information about the suspect or anything that could help the case, you are asked to call 911 or the SPD Violent Crimes Hotline at 206-233-5000.

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