Grant M. Haller / P-IA mourner lights a candle before placing it with about sixty other candles Wednesday at the spot at 15th Ave. and E. Howell Streets where Shannon Harps was killed.
Police searching for "person of interest" in Capitol Hill slaying
By Jennifer Sullivan, Seattle Times staff reporter
By Jennifer Sullivan, Seattle Times staff reporter
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Police are seeking a man they call a "person of interest" in the slaying of Capitol Hill stabbing victim Shannon Harps.
A sketch of the man, who was seen running from where Harps' body was found, was released Wednesday.
Police said this morning that more than 30 people have contacted authorities to report possible information about the man in the sketch.
Assistant Police Chief Nick Metz declined to call the man in the sketch a suspect in the slaying."We're looking at anybody who has had any type of relationship with her," Metz said Wednesday. "Right now there is nobody we are fixated on, besides the person we have the sketch of."
Meanwhile, Seattle police are saying they have ruled out no one in connection with the stabbing. Police had said earlier they had ruled out one of Harps' co-workers.
"As of this morning we had not interviewed him," said Seattle police Sgt. Deanna Nollette.
Harps was walking home from the grocery store Monday night when she was attacked outside her condominium building, police said. Fellow residents of the 1500 block of East Howell Street called 911 after hearing screaming and yelling, Metz said.
Harps was walking home from the grocery store Monday night when she was attacked outside her condominium building, police said. Fellow residents of the 1500 block of East Howell Street called 911 after hearing screaming and yelling, Metz said.
Harps was found lying in the planting strip on the north side of the building with stab wounds to her abdomen and chest, according to police. She was pronounced dead that night at Harborview Medical Center.
One or two people saw a man run from Harps' condominium building, Metz said. Police produced a sketch based on witnesses and are requesting that if people recognize the man in the sketch, they call 911 but not approach him.
CHOMP WILL STAY ON TOP OF THIS STORY...
CHOMP: I know this area very well. I have driven on those same streets. I have shopped at those same stores. Am I walking around Seattle after dark. Not a chance! Now that we have a composite, I, like many others, will be looking for that face.
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