This is taken from www.KING5.com, a Seattle TV news site: "Police still searching for suspects in fatal bus stop attack - SEATTLE - Nicholas Helhowski was not your typical product of the streets. The 20-year-old was a bad boy with a Mohawk, a troublemaker. Helhowski died last Sunday from injuries he sustained on April 11."
Nicholas was "a huge supporter of punk rock and developing peace in the Seattle scene also a strong advocate against the Seattle Teen Dance Ordinance. Today over 200 people went to a memorial and mourned peacefully. There will be a memorial fund and shows put on to rember his death and help pay for funeral costs." You can read the full article below.
Police still searching for suspects in fatal bus stop attack
04/16/2002
Reported by Arturo Santiago, KING 5 News
SEATTLE - Nicholas Helhowski was not your typical product of the streets. The 20-year-old was a bad boy with a Mohawk, a troublemaker.
But he had turned his life around. He turned himself into a suit and took on the role of advocate for the homeless and crusader against street violence.
"I want to cry but no I'm really more mad than anything else that it had to happen the way it happened," says Helhowskiâs girlfriend, Marina Babic.
Helhowski died last Sunday from injuries he sustained on april 11.
Helhowski was riding bus route 16 up Seattle's Wallingford street. Police say after an argument, four young people followed him and a female friend off the bus at 85th.
The two males started hitting Helhowski.
"We don't think weapons were involved. It appears that it was simply fists hitting the victim, and he went down and struck his head on the pavement," says Duane Fish of the Seattle Police Dept.
Carol Cummings, the head of security for metro, told king 5 news that the driver that day on route 16 didn't see anything out of the ordinary. She says that Helhowski, his female friend and the suspects were having a conversation. There was no violence on the bus.
Metro is getting ready to install digital cameras in 160 of their buses to monitor safety and security.
Itâs a tool that would have been useful last week to help catch Nicholas Helhowski's assailants.
"They could go back and they could potentially identify suspects from the tape," says Cummings.
Police are looking for four suspects. One is described as an Hispanic male, 17-23 years old, with a full goatee and a trim build. He was wearing a blue cap with red trim.
If you have any information, please call the Seattle Police homicide division at (206) 684-5550.