Seattle Police are investigating a Capitol Hill gay bashing and robbery after a man said he was assaulted near E Harrison and Summit Sunday night.

The victim, who asked to remain anonymous, told CHS he was walking home around 10:30 PM Sunday when the assault occurred. As he passed the suspect, the victim said he heard the man call him a faggot then immediately started punching him in the head.

“He wasn’t yelling or anything. In a calm voice just kept saying ‘fucking faggot, fucking faggot,’” he said.

The victim, who was walking alone, told CHS the assailant then hit him over the head with a hard object, knocking him unconscious. When he woke up, $100 was missing from his pocket along with his new Adidas shoes — taken right off his feet.

The victim described his attacker as a tall black male wearing a pale yellow t-shirt:

V/ described the Suspect as a Black male, early to mid-twenties, 6’0, medium build, with very short hair, a narrow/slender face, a prominent and wide nose and thin lips. The suspect was reported to be wearing a Pale Yellow t-shirt and dark jeans. V/ said that when the suspect spoke English, that it was with an accent, that sounded to him (V/ ) like it was possibly an Ethiopian accent.

The responding police officer noted that the victim’s “left eye was considerably swollen and bruised” –

Just beneath his left eye, I could see two small horizontal scrapes, approximately ” in length. It also appeared to me that V/ ‘s left eye was bloodshot. V/ was unsteady on his feet and had difficulty maintaining his balance.

The officer said the victim also had “a crown” of dried blood on his head.

After the assault, the victim said he has been hesitant to walk around at night around his otherwise very quiet Capitol Hill neighborhood.

“I want people to know that Capitol Hill is not the safe place you thought it was before,” he said. “I never thought I would be assaulted coming home from a teriyaki joint.”

Despite the traumatic experience, the victim said there was a silver lining: His “neutral” feelings about SPD completely shifted for the positive.

“The responding officers that came out that night were fantastic,” he said. “I totally felt that they got it and they cared about what they were doing.”