Dog walker killed during Seattle carjacking

Woman killed in apparent carjacking, stolen SUV recovered

Seattle Police have recovered the SUV that was carjacked from Seattle woman who later died in the Madison Valley neighborhood.

SEATTLE - Seattle police are investigating a homicide after a dog walker was killed during a carjacking in the Madison Valley neighborhood Tuesday morning.

Before 10 a.m., officers responded to reports of a carjacking near Martin Luther King Junior Way East and East Harrison Street.

When officers got to the scene, they found a bystander performing CPR on a woman in the middle of the street.

Medics took over the life-saving efforts, but the woman died at the scene.

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According to investigators, the woman was a neighborhood dog walker. She died after she was dragged by her car during a carjacking, police said.

Several witnesses tried to intervene, but the suspect drove away in her stolen car. Seattle Police located the car near the Brighton Playfield on South Juneau Street Tuesday afternoon.

Police say they received a report from Seattle Animal Control at 3:05 p.m. about a dead dog in the park. Responding officers located the stolen car unoccupied, and detectives are now processing the scene.

The victim was identified on Wednesday as Ruth Dalton.