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Thursday, March 28, 2002
By MIKE BARBER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
A teenage assailant left the Rev. David Tinney bloodied and broken beside the road Monday afternoon, wondering if he was going to be paralyzed.
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Only 48 hours after a 17-year-old Issaquah boy was arrested for leaning out of a car of other laughing teenagers and shoving Tinney off a bicycle, the soft-spoken 51-year-old pastor's spirit yesterday was pushing his broken body to get back to the pulpit by Sunday.
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King County sheriff's deputies arrested one of the suspected youths Monday, and he was released by Juvenile Court to his parents' custody. Detectives are investigating the case as possible second-degree felony assault, said Sgt. Greg Dymerski, sheriff's spokesman.
Tinney was riding in the 1700 block of Southeast Newport Way shortly before 1 p.m. He recalls seeing first one car go by at a normal distance from him, then sensing another car moving up slowly and closer.
"I was doing 30 miles per hour on a little of a downhill slope and saw this other car coming up very slowly within a foot of me, and the guy climbs out the window just yelling and laughing and hits me on the back. He pushed me right off the bike," Tinney recalls.
As he went over, "I looked back and everyone in the car was laughing. There was a girl driving and two boys in the back seat. The laughing heightened the insanity and the meaninglessness of the violence."
Tinney hit the pavement and recalls bouncing and a blur.
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Tinney was riding his bike to train for the 200-mile Seattle-to-Portland race this summer. It was a commitment he made to his 19-year-old daughter recently after his father died. Reflecting on the memories of her grandfather, Tinney's daughter wanted to create her own memories with her father through the long bike ride together.
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