A 26-year-old employee at Microsoft faces decades in prison after allegedly stabbing another Microsoft employee more than a dozen times near the tech behemoth’s campus in an unprovoked attack that left the victim in critical condition.
Joseph Richard Cantrell was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with one count of attempted second-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault, records reviewed by Law&Crime show. According to the Redmond Police Department in Washington State, North Sound Metro SWAT at approximately 5:50 p.m. on the evening of Feb. 22, 2023 responded to a reported assault with a weapon at the corner of 156th Ave. NE and NE 28th Street. Redmond is located approximately 15 miles east of Seattle.
Upon arriving at the scene, authorities located an adult male victim who appeared to be suffering from multiple stab wounds. The victim was then transported to the hospital with “critical injuries,” police said.
Prosecutors with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office provided additional details of the incident in a sworn affidavit of probable cause obtained by Law&Crime, including a first-hand account from the first officer on the scene.
“[The victim’] was on the sidewalk face-up and I immediately noticed a significant amount of blood on his body on the sidewalk and on the street. He had a significant amount of blood on his face and head. As I made contact with him I asked him what hurt, he identified it being hard to breath and that he...
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