SEATTLE — A man outside a Seattle bar was pricked by a syringe and told, "Welcome to the HIV club," by the woman who stabbed him, police were told.



The incident happened about 12:15 a.m. Sept. 17 in the 500 block of North 36th Street, part of Seattle's Fremont neighborhood.



The woman with a syringe, described as a white woman in her late 20s with shoulder-length dirty blonde hair, was walking with a man about the same age who was wearing a baseball hat.



As they walked by the victim and his girlfriend on the sidewalk, the victim "felt a sharp prick and stabbing puncture to his left tricep," according to a police report. The woman made the HIV comment while looking directly at him, the victim told police.



The man saw blood from where the syringe needle had penetrated his arm, police said, and "he then became traumatized by what had just happened," an office wrote in the incident report.