{"id":625976,"date":"2026-05-06T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625976\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:15:10","slug":"tip-leads-to-arrest-of-second-suspect-in-attack-on-77-year-old-man-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625976\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip leads to arrest of second suspect in attack on 77-year-old man in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Investigators say a tip from the public led to the arrest of a second suspect accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/video-shows-unprovoked-attack-on-77-year-old-man-in-downtown-seattle-crime-surveillance-bodycam-2-suspects-public-safety-3rd-pine?teaserSource=trending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">beating a senior citizen who had just gotten off a bus<\/a> in downtown Seattle last month.<\/p>\n<p>Redmond police arrested Jes\u2019Sean Tyrell Elion at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday after a witness called to report she recognized him from news coverage of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>KOMO News obtained the video through a public records request and published it earlier Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/video-shows-unprovoked-attack-on-77-year-old-man-in-downtown-seattle-crime-surveillance-bodycam-2-suspects-public-safety-3rd-pine?teaserSource=trending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Video shows 2 men beating 77-year-old in unprovoked attack in downtown Seattle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elion appeared in court Tuesday afternoon, and a judge set bail at $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>The other suspect, Ahmed Abdullahi Osman, 29, was arrested the night of the April 19 attack and later released from custody without bail. He now has a warrant out for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Osman and Elion are accused of randomly approaching the 77-year-old victim, shoving him to the ground, and hitting him.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the incident was recorded by Seattle police Real Time Crime Center cameras positioned along Third Avenue in the downtown core.<\/p>\n<p>The victim remains at Harborview Medical Center more than two weeks after the attack. A police report indicates he suffered a broken knee, a broken arm, and facial injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; updates will be posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Investigators say a tip from the public led to the arrest of a second suspect accused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-625976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}