By Cassandra Baker

5:10 p.m., April 22. 11th block of NW Leary Way

A shoplifter made off with a pair of athletic shoes at a Ballard store on April 22. The victim, a store employee, called police to report the crime. She said that the suspect, a black male in his 20s about 5’8” tall and wearing a black jacket and white T-shirt, entered the store and began looking at the shoes. The victim said that she saw him put a pair of shoes in his jacket, but when she confronted him about it, he said he wasn’t taking anything. He then pushed past her and ran out of the store. The stolen shoes were Nikes valued at about $50. The suspect was not located in the area, but the victim said that the store did have video surveillance footage.

2:00 a.m., April 22. N 45th St and Wallingford Ave N

An argument over noise turned into a violent stabbing that sent two men to the hospital on April 22. Shortly before 2:00 a.m., the suspect in the incident was walking back to his apartment in Wallingford with a case of beer and a pizza when he came across a group of seven people standing near his apartment. He told them to be quiet, and then got into an argument with several people and began throwing bottles of beer at them. He used a broken beer bottle to stab one man in the abdomen and another man in the leg.

Police arrived at the scene minutes later to find both victims lying in the street. They soon noticed a man standing at the top of a staircase outside a nearby apartment building and looking as though he was trying to hide from police. Officers approached him and noticed that he had blood on his clothing, at which point he was handcuffed. Several witnesses identified the man as the suspect in the stabbing. He was booked into King County Jail for assault. The victims were taken to Harborview Medical Center for treatment.

8:07 a.m., April 20. 83rd block of 11th Ave NW

A man called police after the home he was in the process of moving out of was burglarized. The victim said that his family had moved to Edmonds and had been coming to the house in Seattle every few days to continue packing. When he arrived at the house on April 20, he found the front door ajar. He heard a noise and called police, believing that the burglar was still inside.

Police responded to the scene and found the back door ajar and a window wide open. No one was inside the house. The home had been ransacked, but the only items known to be stolen were a 50” flat-screen TV and a DVD player. Police found several fingerprints on a small TV that the burglar evidently decided not to take.

12:18 a.m., April 20. 80th block of 11th Ave NW

A man called police after he returned home to find that his house had been burglarized. The burglar apparently threw a rock through the glass in the back door to gain entry. The victim said that he usually kept a key in the door’s deadbolt and it was now missing. The burglar ransacked the house on all levels, opening drawers and dumping out the contents and leaving boxes strewn about. A box of jewelry was the only item the victim knew to have been stolen, but other items may also have been taken.

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