Seattle Police are on the look out for a man who attacked three people and assaulted another two with a machete in Ballard on May 29.

Police were dispatched to NW Leary Avenue and 15th Avenue NW and found three people picking up belongings next to a flipped shopping cart. The victims told police a group of Native American males attacked them and pushed over their cart.

As the victims explained the attack, officers got a call for another assault. They were dispatched to 14th Avenue NW where they found a man cut and bleeding. He said a group of “homeless people” accosted him and his friends. There was an argument and one of the suspects pulled out a machete and struck the victim. The attacker was described as Native American, 5’ 6” tall, with messy long hair and wearing a green shirt.

Seattle Fire Department treated the victim but he was later transported to Swedish Hospital for further treatment.

While police were combing the area they received yet another call for an assault a block away from the scene of the last assault. When they arrived they found a man bleeding profusely from his head. Police report that blood covered the victim’s head, face and hands. The victim said he tried to give money to a group of people he thought were down and out, but when he got close they attacked him. The suspect struck the man in the head with a machete. The man was rushed to Swedish Hospital. Descriptions of the attacker match the suspect from other attacks.

Detective Patrick Michaud with SPD reported that there was no arrest made. The first responding officers spent over three hours looking for the attacker and an additional six officers spent over an hour combing the surrounding streets.

Det. Michaud said that machetes are not typical weapons seen in assaults.

“In the city we don’t see many machete attacks. Sadly we see people injured in this way regularly from knives and other sharp objects,” said Det. Michaud.