Crime & Safety
$2M Bail for Man Held in Stabbing of Shoreline Professor
The man held in connection with the stabbing of Shoreline professor Troy Wolff identified himself to police as schizophrenic, according to Seattle Police Department. The man may be charged later this week.
Bail was set at $2 million Monday for the 44-year-old man who Seattle police say fatally stabbed Shoreline Community College professor Troy Wolff, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Wolff, 46, and his partner, Kristin Ito, 30, were attacked by a stranger with a knife in Pioneer Square after a Sounders soccer game late Friday, according to the Seattle Police Department and Shoreline Community College.
Witnesses told police that the man started stabbing Ito, according to the Seattle Police Department. Wolff tried to intervene, and the man then attacked Wolff with the knife, according to the Seattle Police Department.
Wolff died early Saturday morning. Ito was at Harborview Medical Center.
According to the Seattle Times, the man told police that he was schizophrenic and that Wolff was a "member of a group trying to kill him."
The man is expected to be charged by Wednesday, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Patch has not named the man because he has not yet been charged.
Wolff was chairman of the English Department at Shoreline Community College, and had been with the college since 1996, becoming a full-time professor at Shoreline in 2001. He also was the author of "Seattle and King County: Gateway to the Pacific Northwest," and "Seattle: The Emerald City," according to Shoreline Community College.
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