By Cassandra Baker

9:48 p.m., May 10. 84th block of Seaview Pl NW

Police responded to reports of a violent robbery at Golden Gardens on the night of May 10. The 911 caller reported that the two suspects, both male, had fled the scene. The responding officer found the victim sitting in the parking lot. He had a cut and a bump above his left eye, and his clothes and hair were stained with blood. The victim said that he had only met the suspects a few minutes before the assault. He asked if they would give him a cigarette, and they told him to follow them from the parking lot to the beach.

Once they were at the beach, the suspects gave him the cigarette, but one of the suspects tried to take the victim’s wallet out of his pocket. Both suspects then began to punch the victim repeatedly. When the victim fell to the ground, the larger suspect continued to kick him while the other suspect watched. The victim said that the suspects were unable to take his wallet. He described one suspect as a white male 5’10” tall in his late teens wearing a white football jersey, and the other suspect as a 5’7” white male in his late teens wearing a red football jersey. He said he could definitely identify both of them in the future.

A witness said that he was walking his dog when he heard the victim yell for help. He approached and saw the larger suspect kicking the victim, and yelled at him to stop. The witness said that the suspects stopped, looked at his dog, and ran away. The witness then called 911.

A friend of the victim said that he thought he had seen two men matching the suspects’ descriptions at a fire pit. Officers located the subjects, who voluntarily provided their contact information and agreed to come with the officers to be identified. The witness was unable to identify either individual, and the victim said that one individual was definitely not involved and he thought the other might have been. The two subjects were released.

The victim was treated by Seattle Fire but did not want to go to the hospital.

8:36 p.m., May 9. 51st block of 1st Ave NW

A man called police after his home was burglarized for the second time in six months. The victim left his house securely locked at around 5:30 p.m. on May 10 and returned at around 8:30 p.m. to find that a pane of glass on a side door had been broken and the deadbolt had been damaged. This was believed to be the point of entry. The burglar stole several items, including a camera, a Kindle, three boxes with jewelry. The responding officer lifted partial fingerprints from several surfaces. The victim believed that the same person might have been behind both burglaries at his house because the point of entry was the same.

2:56 p.m., May 8. 44th block of Greenwood Ave N

A woman learned the hard way that burglars often need very little time to work. The victim said that she arrived home, took her child upstairs for a nap, and heard the garage door close. She went back downstairs and found that someone had taken her purse, keys, and garage door opener from her car. She said that it had to have happened in a space of about five minutes.

10:09 a.m., May 8. 58th block of 24th Ave NW

Many people use bike locks to secure their wheels, but one Ballard woman found that these locks were less secure than she had thought. The victim called to report that her two bicycles, which had been stored in a secured parking garage at her condo and locked together, had been stolen. The thief cut the locking cable connecting the bicycles and took both bicycles. There were no suspects yet, but the responding officer suggested that the victim check Craigslist and eBay to see if a bicycle that might be hers appeared.

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