SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department is asking for the public's help in identifying two victims of separate vehicular assaults on and near Aurora Avenue in November.
Police said they were made aware of two incidents in late November where two separate vehicles purposely targeted and struck pedestrians.
Surveillance video and cell phone video taken just before 2 a.m. on Nov. 26 showed a vehicle targeting a woman and purposely hitting her on North 107th Street just west of Aurora Avenue North, according to police. Multiple people reportedly helped the victim before a car was seen stopping, carrying the woman to the passenger seat and driving away.
The second incident happened in the 9600 block of Aurora Avenue North at around the same time on Nov. 26. Cell phone video of the incident reportedly showed a vehicle target a woman walking in the bus lane. The woman is seen being struck from behind and flying over the hood of the car.
"They think it is funny,” said Donna Lattin as she watched the video police released of the vehicular assaults.
Lattin runs South Pacific Island Travel along Aurora Avenue. It is close to where one of the pedestrians was hit.
Both victims have not been identified and the suspect vehicle did not stop in either incident, according to police.
Police said based on the speed of the impact, that it's likely that the victims suffered serious injuries.
"It just blows my mind at what is going to be next out here,” said Brian Blake, another North Seattle business owner.
Along a stretch of Aurora Avenue, public safety concerns keep piling up.
"It is between the taggers, the prostitutes, and the people who don't care. They don't care about our city and keeping it clean, that is what is tough,” said Lattin. "Monday through Friday down here the first thing do is look around and see how much garbage."
Lattin wants the city to offer more help.
"They need to come a little further north to see what is going on here, to see what our neighborhood and our businesses are going through,” she said.
Seattle police detectives have reviewed 911 records, and hospital admissions and looked for witnesses but have not been able to locate the victims.
Anyone with information is asked to call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
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