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Woman slain, man arrested near college in Bellevue
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By Ashley Bach
Seattle Times Eastside bureau

Bellevue police said they have no indication that a woman slain
yesterday morning near Bellevue Community College knew her alleged
attacker, who was found by police lying next to her body.

But police said they need to investigate more before concluding that the
killing, the first criminal homicide case in Bellevue since 1998, was
random.

"We just can't commit yet to say this is a random act or a focused act,"
said Bellevue police Capt. Bill Ferguson.

Police declined to identify either the dead woman or the man under
arrest. Investigators said yesterday that the slain woman, who was in
her 30s, lived just north of the community college campus, and had
apparently left her home in the morning to go to an appointment south of
the college.

Police said the arrested man, 29, apparently only recently arrived in
the area and had been living in a car.

About 9:15 a.m., a man on his daily walk along the paved trail, between
the Eastgate Park & Ride Lot and the campus, saw the man with no shirt
standing in the bushes off the trail, police said. The shirtless man was
acting strangely, and he ducked down when the other man looked his way.

The walker retreated and called police. An officer walked up the hill to
find the woman's body and the shirtless man on the ground nearby,
Ferguson said.

The man was arrested at gunpoint and offered no resistance, Ferguson
said. The man at first was talkative with police, but then asked for a
lawyer and declined to answer detectives' questions, Ferguson said.

He was expected to be booked into the King County Jail last night.

The trail where the woman's body was found winds up a wooded hill, from
the north end of the park-and-ride lot to the southwest corner of
campus. The path is not busy, and not part of the school property, but a
"small percentage" of students travel the short distance from the bus
stop below to campus each day, said Bob Adams, a college spokesman.

School officials sent out an e-mail yesterday to faculty and some
student groups to notify them about the discovery of the woman's body.
But they said they were waiting on more definitive news from police
before they decide on other actions.

"If there are any issues that students need to be aware of, we'll let
them know," Adams said.

Bellevue Community College has about 20,000 students who attend classes
on a 96-acre campus.

Ferguson emphasized that the college area typically has little crime,
and there is a suspect in the case under arrest.

Above the trail yesterday, most students walked past the police cars
and didn't seem to notice the crime scene below. But others worried
about their safety.

Annie Harris, 21, of Renton said she walks the trail about three times a
week, but will think twice now. "It's extremely scary," she said. "I
didn't expect anything like that to ever happen here."

Terry Legg, 22, of Renton said he wants to know more about the crime.
"If it was random, it'd be a lot more disturbing."

The woman's body was found near the Puget Sound Regional Archives
building on campus, and just above a county public-health clinic next to
the park-and-ride.

As police officers investigated, parents with children walked in and
out of the clinic.

Christi Copeland, 35, of Redmond held her 1-year-old son, Tyler, as she
walked back to a bus stop after receiving a shot at the clinic. She said
she was "pretty freaked out" by the incident.

"I feel like it's really close," she said.

Ashley Bach: 206-464-2567 or abach@seattletimes.com

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