Charges include murder and animal cruelty have been brought against a guy who is suspected of carjacking a well-liked 80-year-old dog walker from Seattle, running her over, and then stabbing her dog to death.
According to a document submitted to the court, 48-year-old Jahmed Kamal Haynes was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree assault, and first-degree animal cruelty.
The judge granted the prosecutors’ request to keep him detained in the jail without bond. On September 5, Haynes is expected to appear in court.
Whether Haynes had a lawyer or will be given one by the King County Public Defense office was not immediately known. Authorities assert that Haynes was not acquainted with Dalton.
At approximately 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Ruth Dalton was parked on the side of the road in the Madison Valley district of Seattle when Haynes got into the passenger side, according to the prosecution.
They claimed that while Haynes attempted to gain control of the car, Dalton began to drive off. Prosecutors stated that he shoved her outside and onto the road, backed into many parked cars, and then ran over her as he left the scene.
Haynes allegedly threatened onlookers with a knife when they attempted to intervene, one of them brandishing a bat or stick, according to the prosecution. Dalton passed away at the site despite the witnesses’ best efforts to save his life after he left.
Prosecutors said that Haynes killed Dalton’s dog with a knife in a park after leaving the area.
Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Brent Kling stated in his submission for a no-bail hold that “the sheer brutality of the defendant’s actions that morning was only further demonstrated by how he disposed of evidence of his crimes: disposing of Dalton’s dog in a recycling bin and destroying Dalton’s phone.”
After someone reported that a man was abusing a dog in the park, Seattle police located the offender.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Seattle police Deputy Chief Eric Barden stated that when officers arrived, they discovered Dalton’s car close by and were able to obtain her fingerprints from her cellphone.
According to Barden, Haynes had the keys to Dalton’s Subaru and a blood-stained knife with him when he was taken into custody by police close to his house.
Prosecutors said that Haynes had a violent and lengthy criminal past when they requested that he be detained without bond.
In 1993, he was found guilty of vehicular murder after driving carelessly through Seattle’s streets and into a sidewalk, resulting in many car crashes and the death of a driver. He was found guilty in 1999 of car theft and robbing a Safeway shop with a BB gun after serving his term, according to Kling.
He used a 12-inch (30.5-centimeter) piece of metal that had been dulled to attack two prisons personnel in 2003 when he was incarcerated for those offenses, according to Kling.
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“In short, the level of violence the defendant has shown he is capable of, not only within the day the presently charged crimes were committed, but over the course of the last 30 years demonstrates a propensity for violence that conclusively shows that he is a danger to the community,” Kling stated.
