The King County Superior Court sentenced a 46-year-old man to one year in prison on July 26 after he pleaded guilty in a 2023 case involving threats to kill Washington Governor Jay Inslee.
Rashidi Slaughter was a Seattle resident at the time of the May 2023 case, regarding 19 calls from Slaughter to the Seattle Police Dispatch containing threats to multiple elected officials. Slaughter lived in Auburn at the time of a prior case in 2021, also involving threats to an elected official, former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.
Officers from the Seattle Police Department arrested Rashidi Slaughter, 46, on April 27, 2021, at his residence in Auburn after receiving notification of a voicemail left at the Seattle mayor’s office earlier in the morning stating Slaughter wanted to kill Durkan.
“Ms. Jenny Durkan, this will be an easy game for you to play,” Slaughter stated in the voicemail left on the office of Durkan’s main telephone line. “If you don’t let me put a civil rights no contact order on anybody I want to, guess what — I don’t know if I’m going to be able to do it but I’m going to kill you and gonna kill your whole family, do you understand me?”
Slaughter identified himself with his full name and provided his phone number in the voicemail.
“I don’t want any police in my life ever again. I want protective custody away from you white Ku Klux Klan skinhead Aryan nation white supremacists,” Slaughter said. “Now you gimme a call, bitch.”
At the time, Slaughter, a longtime Tacoma resident, lived with his brother in Auburn.
Prosecutors charged Slaughter with harassment in King County Superior Court in the April 2021 case, with the case dismissed five months later after Slaughter pleaded guilty in mental health court.
According to court documents, at the time of the April 2021 case, Slaughter held multiple mental health diagnoses, including schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and antisocial personality disorder.
According to prosecutorial documents, Slaughter received a misdemeanor conviction for harassment in the 2021 case after he was unsuccessful in completing mental health court, with the mental health court terminating his case.
The King County Superior Court sentenced Slaughter on July 26, 2024, after he pleaded guilty in two cases; one involving the threats to officials, including Inslee, in his calls to Seattle dispatch in May 2023; and the second involving Slaughter threatening to kill the employees of his housing complex with a metal pipe in November 2023.
Slaughter pleaded guilty on July 10, 2024, to charges in both cases; a felony charge of threats against the governor in the first case; and a felony harassment charge in the second.
“You tell the Governor, Senator, Mayor of Washington, and the President of the United States of America, I’m gonna blow their f—-ing face off with a shotgun n—-a,” Slaughter stated in his first call to Seattle dispatch on May 3, according to an affidavit of probable cause. “I’m gonna hang a child and beat that mother——er like it mother——ing Cinco de Mayo day.”
“You tell Jay Inslee I’m gonna rape his wife, I’m gonna kill, cut his f—-ing head off,” Slaughter stated in another call. “You tell Barack Obama I’m gonna shove a gauge up his mother-—-ing wife’s p—-y and blow that mother-—-er off.”
At the time of the calls, Slaughter served as an occupant in a unit at the Hobson Place, a housing building managed through a nonprofit serving Seattle’s homeless population.
According to an affidavit of probable cause in Slaughter’s harassment case, in November 2023, agitated as a result of not having power to his unit, Slaughter attempted to swing a metal pipe at the employees of the building.
After the employees shut themselves into the building’s office, blocking the entrance to prevent Slaughter from entering, Slaughter beat at the windows and attempted to force his way in, stating “I’m going to come in and kill all of you.”
Judge Johanna Bender sentenced Slaughter to 12 months in confinement at the King County Jail, with credit for time served, at his July 26 sentencing hearing, a combined hearing for both cases; with the 12-month sentences per his two convictions to run concurrently.
The court additionally signed a 5-year no-contact order for Slaughter with Inslee.
At the time of Slaughter’s November 2023 arrest, the Hobson Place incident served as his 78th custodial arrest, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
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