Jason Jacobs this morning at Harborview.
  • Michael Sullivan
  • Jason Jacobs this morning at Harborview.
Just after midnight today, Seattle police responded to an assault call in the Starbucks parking lot on Olive Way and found a victim with a broken nose. The victim of the alleged assault, according to his housemate Michael Sullivan, was Jason Jacobs, who is pictured at left. The SPD blotter has a short post up on the incident; The Stranger has also obtained the narrative submitted by the officer who responded to the call.

Whoever called police to the scene didn't see what was happening, but said they "heard a loud argument," according to the narrative report. When police arrived, 37-year-old Jacobs was "bleeding heavily from his nose," and told officers that he had been walking home "when three males and two females began walking with him," near East Olive Way and East Denny Way. He told police that "they began calling him a 'faggot,'" according to the report. Then, he reported, "the group chased after him... caught him... and began punching him repeatedly and knocked him to the ground." The suspects, described on the blotter as two white females and three white males, were last seen heading north on Summit Avenue and were not apprehended. The blotter also notes that Jacobs "had been drinking and could only provide the vaguest of descriptions for the suspects." What appears to be a second witness "observed two males chase [Jacobs] across E Olive Wy near Starbucks to the park at Summit Ave E and E John St" but "did not witness the assault."

Jacobs was transported to Harborview with a broken nose, lacerations to his face, and an injured knee. Officer Kevin M Jones, who authored the narrative report, writes at the end, "[The victim] requested that I call his mother to advise her what happened."

As readers may remember, five men were charged in June for a bloody hate crime, after which the senior deputy prosecuting attorney in charge of hate crime cases, Mike Hogan, said that for all its renown as a gay-friendly neighborhood, "it's common to see people not from our area... go up to the Pike/Pine district and offend there."

We've written about Jacobs before; once when he was organizing pro-marriage-equality bar crawls last fall and once after he alleged anti-gay discrimination by the Seattle Great Wheel.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Jason.