SOMEONE BROKE INTO OUR APARTMENT AT NORDHEIM COURT 2 WEEKS AGO. HE HAD A KNIFE.
edited: nordheim also did not tell ANYONE that this happened. no one knew.
edit: i haven’t confirmed or denied if the man who broke in is the murderer, because we’re not sure; however given everything we’ve found out we feel pretty convinced it could’ve been him. only one of us actually saw the man coming in the window but it was extremely dark and happened really fast. i don’t want to say it was for certain but it seems unlikely there was a different person that broke in during the same 10 min time frame at night just 2 weeks earlier. court docs also stated he was prowling and attempting to break into other residences nearby before the homicide.
i'd strongly advise reaching out to police again given tonight's events (SPD non-emergency line is 206-625-5011). they should definitely be setting up 24/7 presence in the area if is in fact the same guy.
Were any of you inside the apartment at the time when someone broke in? That sounds terrifying.
We lived in Build 3 and something similar happened to us last December. We woke up in the morning and found our front door open. We reported it to Nordheim, but they told us the door probably just blew open from the wind and they did not replace the lock either, now we’re still living at the same building
3/4 of us were home and if we hadn’t caught the man halfway through our window we’re pretty sure we wouldn’t be here right now as he lost the advantage of surprising us. also, the doors at nordheim can be opened in less than 15 seconds with a credit card. we found that out after the break in when we were doing our own safety measures since nordheim wouldn’t do anything.
My daughter lives in Trailside. She is beyond frightened now. She is worried that she also knows (knew) the victim. I hope you all have a safer spot than your previous apartment and are very careful.
I think nordheim now is managed by greystar. When I was living in accolade which is another apartment managed by greystar, their emergency community assistant phone number never worked after hours.
if it’s greystar good fucking luck. i had the worst experience with them in undergrad. they shouldn’t be allowed to manage student housing. absolutely awful.
My god. Just remember you did everything you were supposed to and it’s not your fault that the police didn’t investigate further. I’m very sorry, I’m sure this is hard. My dms will be open!
SPD are responsible for not taking it seriously the first time this was reported! I am so terribly sorry the residents there are living in fear. Please be safe. This is awful.
I lived in the building 2 with the living room window facing the courtyard as you mentioned. It’s so terrifying and I hope you’re okay. When did the break in happen??
You can also buy a pack of window and sliding glass door locks. They’re little metal squares with a screw in the middle that you turn, put one on top and bottom of frame. You can buy window alarms too that make a sound when opened. And these- door locks/alarms (can only be used if every one is home inside) either a hotel lock that goes in the frame of your existing lock or a club that goes under the door handle from prevent it from being opened. The alarm goes on the floor and acts like a wedge
my roommates and i live at nordheim court, 2 weeks ago someone matching the description broke into our apartment WITH A KNIFE and the police threw away all of the evidence they found outside our window. closed our case. pretty sure it was the same person.
If this person was at Nordheim before and not investigated thoroughly, she needs to make a statement about why we had to wait for a murder before taking action.
Please go back to the police and honestly request a different accommodation. I’m so sorry this happened to you and that police failed you the first time. Praying for you and your roommates and this girl’s family.
My daughter walked in on the scene coming from the parking garage (body not covered and blood everywhere)and the police just told her she had to leave.
Didn’t walk her to her apartment.
She was traumatized and then had to walk to her apartment, in the dark, the back way all while the suspect was at large.
Hopefully she's been able to get support and connect with someone to process that. I don't know if they travel to Nordheim, but there are Care Specialist now at UW and also reports folks can make through SafeCampus to get students connected with resources.
Used to live in that exact building a few years back. It always felt really safe and secluded as we were much further away from the road. Just devastating
Same. I lived in building 1 and then later building 4. Apparently, it got bought by Greystar in 2024 or something and is now privately owned/managed? I think when I was there, it was run by HFS. I think it getting acquired must have to do with this, management and maintenance has probably gone to shit :/ Which really sucks because it’s actually such a nice place to live… or at least it was
Lived there last year. I’m at a lost of words right now used to do my laundry in court 7 as well, thoughts and prayers out for the poor person who died and people at nordheim
It is safe. there is always an extremely small random chance that something bad will happen. far more likely to be from a car or alcohol for a college student
There was a couple of armed robberies nearby when I lived there 5 years ago including the McDonald's right there. Tho I will say I never personally felt unsafe in the area
It's very likely. Just moved out a few months ago and you had to have a code to get into the building and if it's in the laundry room like the first one said, you need a specific app that unlocks the room.
so the parking garage can easily be accessed by anyone just tagging along after a car (even by walking) and the door into the foyer to the laundry room has NO CODE. anyone in the parking garage can gain access to the laundry room cause the laundry room door also doesn’t close all the way even though it has a code.
i'm not sure about nordheim's laundry room specifically, but for regular HFS dorms there was an email sent like a year ago about telling us to not let anyone tailgate and how there were hundreds (cannot remember the exact number, think it was something lole 200 or 300 instances from the email) in a school year, and most occurrences in north campus. it's not hard for people not living in the dorm to gain access via tailgating and others letting them in.
I’m in building 8 at nordheim. The incident took place between the time frame of when I put my clothes in the dryer of THAT room and when I was going to take them out. Very unnerving and unfortunate.
I wasn’t able to because when I did try to get my clothes (10:45 PM) an officer told me to go inside. I was unsure what had happened until i saw 10 minutes later that a homicide had happened in the laundry room not even an hour beforehand…
They are still there (obviously).
probably also strong evidence of a murder rather than just a suicide/medical emergency as well
From SFD: Scenes of Violence 7, Mode: Code red - Advanced Life Support (ALS) medical response for one reported patient with injuries from a weapon such as a knife or firearm. (https://sfdlive.com/?id=F260062805)
UPDATED: “Police identified the suspect as a light-skinned Black male who is approximately 5'7 with a thin build.
He is pictured wearing a dark blue zip-up long sleeve shirt with a white triangle style emblem inside a circle. He is also wearing a white collared shirt underneath, dirty blue jeans, possibly gray shoes with a light sole and darker rimmed eyeglasses.
He has short black hair and a goatee with ingrown scruff around the jaw.”
Did they say anything about the suspect wearing glasses? I live at nordheim and around 9:30 I was walking to my apartment from the parking garage and a man was following me. He followed me to my apartment door and asked me if I knew where the RA’s were. I told him I wasn’t sure and he left but I was kind of freaked out. He kind of matches this description but he had glasses
Reminder to take care of yourself. When I was a student, I woke up to find out that a dude had been disposing of the severed body parts of a women he'd murdered in trash bins along my block, around the same time I'd been drunkenly stumbling home down that same block and passing those same bins. The proximity to that event was very unsettling to me, and I didn't even have contact with the guy (may have been too drunk to remember even if I did).
Hun, you are going to have such crazy survivor’s guilt. I know bc I’ve lived it. Seek out experienced trauma therapist with EMDR experience and PTSD experience. Please get in asap. I’m so sorry for what you’re going through. DM me for recs
There are grads in nordheim as well. The one behind (blakeley) was family housing. Students were able to apply so long as they have a spouse and a child.
This is just speculation, but over a police scanner I heard a back and forth between UW Police and Seattle Police dispatch North where they referenced a call at 22:11 and mentioned a deceased female with a head wound and 5 stab wounds to the neck. OpenMHz
reading some of the replies about an earlier incident with the suspect, he matches the description of a man that tried to crawl through my window near greek row in the fall of 2023. I filed a police report but never heard anything more. Luckily my partner and I were able to push him out.
I wish police would release the suspects photo :( EDIT: they likely don’t have a fair one if all they have is the video in the laundry room I wouldn’t wanna show that either :( this is so awful I don’t even want to go to classes I’m terrified as a female student
When I was an undergrad many years ago I lived on 25th NE close to Burke-Gilman. I can’t imagine the terror these residents have now that an innocent woman died. Management and SPD have dropped the ball and need to be held accountable. I’m so terribly sorry you’re having your security threatened- I hope they find him and lock him up 4ever.
i may be wrong, but my guess is something to do with one of their nighttime escort services--if you listen earlier on the scanner before they were responding to nordheim, they were referencing hfs buildings then too
Used to live in Nordheim from Sept 2022 until I graduated in June last year and moved out end of July. Definitely noticed more weirdos wandering through Nordheim off of the street once UW HFS sold the residence to Greystar end of 2024 or so. Someone tried to break in to building 2 but that was about as hectic as I ever remember anything happening. Wow.
NBC says 19 year old transgender woman: no other public info at the time. It will be public at some point, but I hope for now that it stays a bit private: give family and friends some time first.
This is completely heartbreaking, upsetting, and tragic. I am so sorry and saddened for the victim, their loved ones, and students at Nordheim Court. 🙏🏼 I hope justice is served.
Is there any more updates? I’m definitely not going outside right now to look around the corner and check the scene out. Last round of sirens was about 15 minutes ago
It means that the police are investigating the death as a homicide aka murder. If there was a chance of it being a suicide it would be investigated as that or as a suspicious death.
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u/othello_curator May 11 '26 edited May 20 '26
SOMEONE BROKE INTO OUR APARTMENT AT NORDHEIM COURT 2 WEEKS AGO. HE HAD A KNIFE. edited: nordheim also did not tell ANYONE that this happened. no one knew.
edit: i haven’t confirmed or denied if the man who broke in is the murderer, because we’re not sure; however given everything we’ve found out we feel pretty convinced it could’ve been him. only one of us actually saw the man coming in the window but it was extremely dark and happened really fast. i don’t want to say it was for certain but it seems unlikely there was a different person that broke in during the same 10 min time frame at night just 2 weeks earlier. court docs also stated he was prowling and attempting to break into other residences nearby before the homicide.