Seattle’s Chinatown has also been the scene of attacks on Asian people. According to the Seattle Police Department, Noriko Nasu, a teacher in Seattle’s Northshore School District, was walking with her boyfriend down a street in Seattle’s Chinatown on the evening of Feb. 25 when she was randomly attacked by a man. Police say the man struck Noriko Nasu in the face with a sock filled with rocks, causing her to pass out on the spot and breaking her teeth and fracturing her face in several places.
The Seattle Police Department announced on April 4 that it had arrested the 41-year-old suspect, Sean Jeremy Holdip, and placed him in custody at King County Jail.
After the incident, Noriko Naisu wrote in a Facebook post that she was treated at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for serious facial injuries after the attack. Noriko Nasu has been teaching Japanese at Inglemoor High School for many years.
She said in an interview with the media on the 4th that she still feels faint due to the concussion, but fortunately the swelling of her face has gradually subsided.
The attack was recorded on a nearby security camera, and Noriko Nasu’s white boyfriend, Michael Poffenbarger, was beaten in the head and sent to the hospital with eight stitches.
While the motive of the assailant remains to be investigated by police, the district superintendent believes that Noriko Nasu was attacked because of her Asian heritage.
In an interview with local television station KIRO, North Bay School District Superintendent Michelle Reid said, “This incident was very close to us, and it happened to one of our colleagues.”
Interviewed by local television station KOMO, Poffenberger said of the attack, “I really think that he was trying to kill us.” He said the assailant hit him or Noriko Nasu extremely hard and fiercely, and did not say a word throughout.
He said he was relieved that the police had caught the culprit and that “from now on I will walk past anyone on the road or around the corner and feel completely different from the past”.
As a registered nurse (registered nurse) Poffenberger said that Naishu Noriko nose three fractures, cheeks, mouth bruises serious, both eyes appear black, a number of broken teeth in the lower row.
The Seattle Police Department noted that according to police records, it received 14 reports of assaults on Asian-American people in 2020, nine in 2019 and six in 2018.
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