EVERETT — The man accused of stabbing a 13-year-old walking to school in mid-January, Andrew Freeman Jr., didn’t know his victim, police records say.
The 13-year-old was walking to school. The attack that Thursday morning began when Freeman is said to have approached and punched the boy in the head, then chased him across Broadway. When the seventh-grader tripped and fell, then tried to hide under a truck, police allege it was Freeman who stabbed him with a small knife five times and then ran away.
Police arrested Freeman, 21, Jan. 29 when someone called in a tip saying he was riding on their bus in South Everett. The next day, a judge set his bail at $2 million, but Freeman was absent. He’d refused to attend his first appearance. He showed up Feb. 3. A district court judge pro-tem modified his bail to $1.5 million.
The court is holding him on probable cause of felony assault with a deadly weapon, as well as a felony parole violation.
The case is likely to proceed with filing in Superior Court to go to trial.
Sixty minutes after that morning’s stabbing Jan. 16, police arrested Freeman on different charges of drug possession and booked him into jail. He was released from jail the next day. Police hadn’t identified Freeman as the stabbing suspect yet. They were still gathering video from area businesses.
The teen made it to school bloodied. He was taken to Providence Medical Center Everett before being transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for higher-intensity medical care.
The teen is now recovering at home, according to his family’s online fundraiser.
Freeman’s past includes charges for robbery and assault in Snohomish County in 2024, and for second-degree attempted robbery in King County in 2022, plus graffiti charges in Everett during 2023. KCPQ-13 TV reported that in the King County attempted robbery incident, he was charged with attacking a woman who’d just pulled money from an ATM. He is transient.
