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Two Victims In Separate Skateboard Attacks



BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Two people were attacked with skateboards in two separate incidents in Bellingham on Tuesday.

The first attack happened at the skate park near Civic Field around 2 p.m.

Thirty-two-year-old Ellen Rose Kenna was allegedly picking up litter when she started arguing with a man and threw a skateboard at him.

Kenna was cited for trespassing at the skate park. In the second attack, Bellingham Police spokesman Mark Young says a group of people from the county were at a parking lot in the 200 block of Telegraph Road around 4 p.m.



Young says a fight broke out when the suspect hit the woman with a skateboard, then continued assaulting her.
He says police know who the suspect is and they are looking for him.

The suspect's name was not released.

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