Tag: derek blaylock

March 6, 2019

Family of Derek Blaylock files suit against city, Sound Transit and contractors after 2016 death near Northgate Station

Derek Blaylock drove his son to school the morning of September 21, 2016, then grabbed his bike and rode to Northgate Transit Center to catch a bus to work. On the way home, he was biking from the transit center along 1st Ave NE next to a construction barrier set up for work on the…
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tagged: deaths, derek blaylock, northgate, northgate station, sdot, sound transit
September 28, 2017

There’s nobody like Derek Blaylock, 1966-2016

Jane met Derek in the circulation department of the Seattle Times in 1988, and he wooed her by drawing silly cartoons for her. She still has some of those cartoons, and included a couple in the booklet for his funeral. They are nestled in right next to photos of a scruffy man, his wife and…
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tagged: deaths, derek blaylock, jane blaylock, kevin brewer
September 21, 2017

Man charged with killing father biking in Northgate had also killed woman walking in Marysville

Derek Blaylock was biking home from the bus stop on his way back from work when Kevin Brewer, 51, allegedly struck him with his pick-up truck and drove away from the scene. Blaylock died within an hour. He was 50 years old with a wife and two young children. Our deepest condolences to his family…
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tagged: crime, deaths, derek blaylock, kevin brewer, northgate