{"id":1618490,"date":"2022-08-22T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T11:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618490"},"modified":"2022-08-22T07:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T11:32:51","slug":"seattle-man-beats-elderly-man-to-death-eight-days-after-being-released-without-bai-for-threatening-to-kill-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seattle-man-beats-elderly-man-to-death-eight-days-after-being-released-without-bai-for-threatening-to-kill-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Man Beats Elderly Man to Death Eight Days After Being Released Without Bai for Threatening to Kill Someone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseattle-man-beats-elderly-man-to-death-eight-days-after-being-released-without-bai-for-threatening-to-kill-someone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618490&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/seattle-police-staffing-shortages-result-in-sex-assault-investigations-not-being-assigned\">Seattle<\/a> resident 66-year-old Rodney Peterman died after Aaron Fulk, 48, hit him numerous times in the back of the head with a large metal rod in an <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/seattle-police-staffing-shortages-result-in-sex-assault-investigations-not-being-assigned\">unprovoked attack<\/a> on August 2.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11131207\/Moment-disabled-man-66-beaten-death-Seattle-serial-criminal-judge-freed.html\">The <em>Daily Mail<\/em> reports<\/a> that Fulk, who can be seen smiling in his mugshot, committed the attack after having been released from jail only eight days before by <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/swat-officer-killed-in-line-of-duty-serving-high-risk-warrant\">Pierce County <\/a>Superior Court Judge Philip Thornton. At the time, Thornton released Fulk without bond and asked him &#8220;not to commit any more crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/operation-crime-justice\/video-shows-fatal-beating-in-downtown-near-pike-place-market\">According to local news<\/a>, eight days before Fulk attacked Peterman, he was arrested in Tacoma, Washington for threatening to kill a security officer at a Pierce Transit stop. Pierce County prosecutors asked Judge Thornton for $10,000 bail but the request was denied, and Funk was released from the county jail.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Fulk has a long rap sheet in the nearby state of Idaho and his crimes include assault, attempted assault, aggravated battery, and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Fulk attacked Peterman, whom he did not know, in the middle of the afternoon. The incident took place at the intersection of \u00a03rd Avenue and Pike Street, &#8220;an area in downtown notorious for violence and drugs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>During the sneak attack Fulk fractured Peterman&#8217;s skull and bashed him after he was unconscious and on the ground. Peterman died on August 6 at a Seattle hospital.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Loren Page served as a Good Samaritan and intervened during the attack and tried to save Peterman.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;No one deserves to be brutally beat like that,&#8221; he said as he cried. &#8220;I apologize for not being there, one more club strike earlier. It\u2019s unacceptable. It should not happen in any city. We should do something about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Fulk has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held at a King County jail on a $2.5 million bond. Prosecutors had to argue with the judge that Funk was a danger to the community as the judge wanted to offer him a lighter bond.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>He pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to police, Fulk said it was his intention to kill Peterman. &#8220;If I have to go to jail for it, I will,&#8221; Fulk said, along with &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna kill him a million times over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/blm-rioter-sentenced-prison-arson-seattle-police-cars\">BLM<\/a> riots of 2020, Seattle has seen both a pronounced <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/seattle-violent-crime-reaches-14-year-high-report\">uptick in violent crime<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/seattle-police-staffing-shortages-result-in-sex-assault-investigations-not-being-assigned\">diminished police force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle resident 66-year-old Rodney Peterman died after Aaron Fulk, 48, hit him numerous times in the back of the head with a large metal rod in an unprovoked attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1618492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}