Lacey stabbing suspect arrested in Olympia

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A 29-year-old man is in custody after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the chest in Lacey, puncturing a lung.

Sergei G. Snyder was arrested Thu., Feb. 25, on suspicion of one count of first-degree assault and is being held on $100,000.

According to court documents, at around 3 p.m. Thursday in the 8500 block of Martin Way East, Lacey police responded to a stabbing. A woman told police a man she didn’t know walked up to her and stabbed her in the chest with a knife. The knife was described as a 4-inch kitchen knife.

The woman also told police the man ran away after stabbing her, leaving the knife stuck inside her. The woman told police she pulled the knife out herself and briefly gave chase to the man as he ran away, but stopped after running about 20 feet.

The woman was transported to an area hospital and treated for a punctured lung, according to court documents.

After the stabbing, Lacey police distributed a flyer with the suspect’s face on it — which was recovered from Intercity Transit surveillance footage. Staff from the Olympia Jail responded, saying they recognized Snyder in the photo. Police got a booking photo of Snyder from the Nisqually Jail — where he had been released a day before the alleged assault.

The victim identified the man in the footage as her assailant.

Snyder was arrested later that day by Olympia Police officers, after he allegedly threw a rock through a store window in Olympia — for which he faces an unrelated charge of disorderly conduct. He was booked into the Thurston County Jail on Friday.  

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