Years before he allegedly committed a murderous carjacking along with animal cruelty in Seattle, he was flagged by mental health experts as a "high risk" for violence in a chilling concern that may have become tragically true.
Jahmed K. Haynes currently sits in jail under suspicion of murder and animal cruelty.
Haynes, 48, carjacked and ran over Ruth Dalton, 80, in the Madison Valley neighborhood on Tuesday, according to authorities, whcih resulted in her death.
Haynes also allegedly stabbed her dog to death before unceremoniously discarded its body in a trash can at a nearby park.
He was was arrested Wednesday by a SWAT team after leaving a mental health clinic in the Capitol Hill area, according to Komo News.
In 2003, while imprisoned at Monroe State Penitentiary, Haynes assaulted a corrections officer with a shank during a cell inspection. The Snohomish County Superior Court charges indicated that a piece of metal had gone missing from a ping pong table in the prison gym.
Four inmates were suspected of possibly having the missing metal, leading to searches of each of their cells. When the corrections officer entered Haynes' cell, Haynes attacked him with a 12-inch shank, according to the charges.
After the attack, Haynes was sent Western State Hospital in Pierce County for treatment.
"I also believe that he is currently at high risk for committing future criminal acts jeopardizing public safety and security due to his past illicit behaviors, lack of insight into his psychiatric condition, state intention to discontinue medications, personality disorder, and possible substance use problem," the subsequent report revealed.
It was revealed via court records that Haynes criminal history began in 1991 when he was charged with seizing a motor vehicle without permission.
In 1993, he was arrested and convicted on a vehicular homicide charge and he was subsequently sent to prison July of 1993 and was released in December 1994.
Haynes was also convicted of on a drug charge in 1995 and went back to prison the same year, according to court records.
The Washington Department of Corrections revealed that Haynes stayed in priosn until September 1998 when he was relased to community custody, which is a state-led monitering process where people in Washington state can be returned to his or her home, job, and neighborhood with intensive supervision.
Only 6 months later, he was readmitted to DOC custody for violating that released supervision, where he stayed until May 1999.
Later that same year, he was arrested once again for a robbery in Renton. He would then be sentenced back to prison in October 1999 after being convicted of first-degree robbery.
