Update on student Dawit Alemu

When he was jumped by four men near a Beacon Hill playfield on June 18, Dawit Alemu was a young, hardworking man headed toward graduation from Seattle Central Community College.

By the time his assailants were done with him, Alemu was clinging to life with from a beating that left him blind and on a ventilator. Alemu, who tended others at a nursing home prior to the assault, remains hospitalized.

On Friday, Alemu, his family and friends received a first, small measure of justice Friday as one of the three men charged in the assault was sentenced to a 10-year prison term.

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