Cal Anderson Killing Happened After Fight Over Lighter: Police

SEATTLE, WA — The 25-year-old woman who was killed at Cal Anderson Park over the weekend argued with her attacker over a lighter in the moments before she was stabbed, according to Seattle police.

Rayshauna Webber was walking through the Capitol Hill park with a friend around 3 a.m. Sunday when the suspect, a 50-year-old Fife man, offered them a lighter to light cigarettes, according to Seattle police.

"When they declined he replied with a derogatory comment," a Seattle police report detailing the incident reads. "They said they tried to talk to him. The suspect pushed [Webber] who pushed him back."

Then a "fast-moving skirmish" broke out. Webber's friend said she felt the attacker "hit her" in the chest two times, and saw him do the same to Webber, the police report says. The friend had a minor stab wound, but Webber fell to the ground and was bleeding heavily. She later died at Harborview Medical Center.

The attacker fled the scene in a car, but police were able to find him because they had surveillance images of him at a nearby store. They used a credit card receipt to find his name and address, according to a police report. Two witnesses — including Webber's friend who was injured — both picked his image out of a photo lineup, police said.

The suspect appeared at a court hearing on Thursday where a judge denied bail. He is being held in the King County Jail under investigation of homicide and assault.

Webber's relatives have set up a GoFundMe fundraiser for her.