Thursday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Suspect identified in Metro bus driver killing, health inspection signs are coming to food trucks, and health advocates worry about Trump's pick of RFK Jr. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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| 0:50.3 | Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Coming up, |
| 0:57.6 | state health advocates are sounding the alarm about the possibility of RFK Jr. becoming the country's |
| 1:03.7 | top health official. That's in a few minutes. But first, here's our roundup of today's top stories. |
| 1:09.6 | It's Thursday, December 19th. |
| 1:13.6 | Our top story today, the Seattle Police Department has announced that a man named Richard Sitzlack is a suspect in the killing of a metro bus driver Wednesday. |
| 1:23.2 | This case has prosecutors looking into his record. The King County Prosecutor's Office says Sitzlack, who's 53, was also connected to a previous stabbing case referred by police. |
| 1:35.2 | Prosecutor's spokesperson Casey McNerthney says Sitzlack claimed last year he killed someone in self-defense, and prosecutors did not file charges. |
| 1:44.6 | The prosecutor said, let's see if we can get some search warrants and see what those show us. |
| 1:48.7 | And the returns of those search warrants actually made the argument of self-defense more plausible. |
| 1:56.0 | Now police say they believe Sitzlack is the person who stabbed Metro bus driver Sean Yim during an altercation this week. |
| 2:04.3 | They said he frequents the University District and should be considered armed and dangerous. |
| 2:10.2 | A crime story about police is on the surface as well today. The Seattle police officer who hit and killed John V. Candula in |
| 2:18.5 | Seattle has agreed to pay fines. Kevin Dave was going 74 in a 25 mile per hour zone in South Lake Union |
| 2:26.0 | when he struck Candula when she was in a crosswalk. He'll pay a $5,000 fine plus community service |
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