King County prosecutors charged a man with first-degree attempted murder Thursday, Sept. 3, for a hammer attack that left a victim in a coma outside a downtown Seattle hotel in May.

Bey Mateen Muhammad is accused of striking George Miller in the head about 30 times with a hammer outside the Renaissance Hotel in the 500 block of Madison Street, blocks from the Queen Anne border, KOMO News reported. Prosecutors asked that bail be set at $2 million. Muhammad has not been convicted, and all defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

The attack occurred around 12:06 a.m. on May 4. According to charging documents, Muhammad approached Miller, who was hunched over outside the hotel, pulled a hammer from his backpack and began striking him in the head. He continued hitting Miller as he lay motionless on the ground before leaving the area.

Police found Miller unconscious and covered in blood.

He was taken to Harborview Medical Center and spent weeks in a coma. One officer described Miller's injuries as the most severe head and face injuries he had seen in his career, according to KIRO 7.

More than three months after the attack, Miller remained in a rehabilitation facility with around-the-clock care. His mother, Lisa Driscoll, told KIRO 7 on Sept. 3:

"He can't hear out of one ear. He still has facial fractures all over his head. He has vision problems in one eye. He can't talk very well. He has a feeding tube in his stomach."

Miller was living on the streets and in active addiction at the time of the attack, according to Driscoll. She founded a recovery housing facility in his honor years ago and said she hopes he will soon move into it.

The Seattle Police Department's Homicide and Assault Unit spent months searching for the attacker, asking the public for help identifying a suspect described as wearing a white bucket hat, black jacket, black pants and red or pink shoes.

Muhammad was arrested in July after allegedly stabbing two people in separate attacks in downtown Seattle. Court records allege he stabbed one person in the back and punched another in a separate incident on July 23. He faces first-degree assault and fourth-degree assault charges in that case.

Prosecutors connected Muhammad to the May 4 hammer attack through his distinctive clothing visible in surveillance footage and video of him using the same hammer to try to break into his neighbor's house, according to KIRO 7. Seattle police referred the case to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office on Monday, Aug. 31.

In the stabbing case, a judge on Thursday, Sept. 3, ordered Muhammad to undergo 90 days of competency restoration. Muhammad did not attend that hearing. Whether that order affects the hammer attack proceedings is unclear from available court records.

Muhammad is scheduled to be arraigned on the attempted murder charge Wednesday, Sept. 9.