Teen Survives Tubbs Hill Ax Attack

An afternoon of hanging out on Tubbs Hill in Coeur d’Alene turned into a nightmare for one Spokane Valley teen when he was attacked a man wielding a hatchet. Keelan Babinski, 17, of Spokane Valley headed out to Tubbs Hill to go cliff diving and swimming with his friends last Friday. Around 10 PM Keelan and his friends decided to head home and were walking toward the parking lot when an agitated man approached them. “As we were heading back to the car there was a kid who walked in between us, he was by himself, he immediately thought we were laughing at him because we were laughing ‘cause we had a good time,” Keelan said. Keelan says he tried to calm him down instead the man claimed to be carrying a gun, grabbed a hatchet the group had just found at a camp ground and started swinging and connected with Keelan’s head. “I felt it, it went into my head and you could feel him tug to pull it out,” Keelan said/ KXLY . More here .

Question: (This one’s late because I was on vacation.) Do you consider this ax attack as another example re: the sketchiness of downtown Coeur d’Alene after dark? Or simply a random thing?