Lee also has nine felony convictions in the last decade, including for theft of a motor vehicle, possession of stolen property, attempted robbery, and attempted burglary. He's now charged with four counts of first-degree assault and one count of fourth-degree assault.

A 37-year-old Seattle man was charged Thursday with five counts of assault in the random stabbings of five people in broad daylight last week, according to prosecutors. Roland Jerome Lee is accused of stabbing five people as they stood on the sidewalk in a roughly four-block area in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.