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Seattle Police releases photos of suspect in UW student murder

KUOW Staff
May 13, 2026 / 6:08 pm


Image released by Seattle Police of the suspect in the fatal stabbing Sunday of a 19-year-old University of Washington student.
Courtesy of the Seattle Police Department

Seattle police have released photos of a suspect in the fatal stabbing Sunday night of a 19-year-old University of Washington student. ... Police posted three photos to the SPD Blotter and asked for tips from the public. ... "Please take a close look at the photos below and see if you can help us capture this person," the post reads.

Police describe the suspect as a light-skinned Black male, approximately 5'7" tall, with a thin build, wearing a long-sleeve dark blue zip-up shirt over a white-collared shirt underneath. He also wore dirty blue jeans and had dirty dark shoes, possibly gray, with light soles. He had dark-rimmed glasses, short black hair, and a goatee.

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Police responded at about 10:10 p.m. Sunday to reports of a stabbing at Nordheim Court, a UW campus housing building. When they arrived, they found the victim in a laundry room. ... The identity of the victim, who was a transgender woman, has not been released by police.

Residents of Nordheim Court said the door to the laundry room where the student was found had been broken for months.

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