Police call stabbing a "stranger to stranger homicide"
"Was Shannon Harps' murder on Capitol Hill a random attack?" That was a question we posed on January 3rd, in the immediate aftermath of Harps' brutal stabbing at 15th & Howell.
Now, more than three weeks later, we finally have an answer: yes.
UPDATE:
We don't know where he got it or whether it's legit, but Dan Savage at SLOG has published a picture of the suspect in custody (who the Times and P.I. are still too timid to name, let alone show). And my oh my, what a...unique...looking fellow he is. The Seattle Crime Blog doesn't normally agree with Dan, but his quote on the matter sums it up best:
No one deserves to have this be the last thing they see before they die.
One last observation before we check out for the evening: don't know about you, but we don't see any real similarities - aside from the presence of facial hair - between this...
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...and this: 
Is the photograph above really the man who killed Harps? If so, how would witnesses not have remembered his distinguishing features when speaking to the police sketch artist in the hours after her killing?
Extra kudos to SLOG, from whom I acquired the above photograph.
Reminds me of the news story from a few months ago that caricatures work better than realistic sketches in jogging people's memory.