UPDATE: Sheriff Deputy injured by hit and run escape following shoplifting incident
UPDATE: Sheriff Deputy injured by hit and run escape following shoplifting incident
Suspects identified and being sought
Police converged on the scene at the Safeway store on Roxbury Street SW Monday night following a hit and run that injured a deputy who had ordered shoplifting suspects to stop.
Photo by Patrick Robinson
Mon, 01/07/2019
Update 6:45am Tuesday
The King County Sheriff’s Office has probable cause to Arrest KHALIA WIMBERLY for Assault 1 and Robbery 1. There is a temporary warrant in the system for Wimberly’s arrest.
Kahlia Wimberly.
According to the King County Sheriff's office the evening of 1/7/19, Wimberly, her boyfriend Davevion Irving, and another associate were allegedly seen shoplifting at the Safeway in White Center. Law Enforcement was called and arrived on scene as they were exiting the store being chased by a loss prevention person. Wimberly and Irving ran past a Deputy that was on foot and in full uniform, got into a black 1996 Lexus LS 4 door. Wimberly, now the driver of the Lexus, struck the Deputy head-on causing serious/ non-life threatening injuries. A third female associate was arrested on scene but Wimberly and Irving escaped.
Davevion Irving
There is NO probable cause or temporary warrant for Irving but he does have an active felony warrant and misdemeanor warrant for his arrest.
Wimberly and Irving are dating and said to be "couch surfing", possibly in the Tacoma area.
Please call 911 if you know where either Wimberly or Irving is or the King County Sheriff’s Office at 206/296-3311.
The suspect vehicle is a 1996 black Lexus like this
Original post
A King County Deputy was injured by suspects attempting to flee after being told to stop at the Safeway store on Roxbury Street SW near White Center Monday evening around 4:30pm.
According to eye witnesses on the scene a woman in her 20's in an older black sedan was told to stop after exiting the store. The deputy who stood near the front of the vehicle held up his hand but his command was ignored. Instead the suspects witnesses said, swerved to hit the deputy, and "sent him flying" some five feet or more. This was in the middle of the Safeway lot. A young woman who was apparently with the suspect did not make it back to the vehicle and was arrested at the scene. She was heard making a loud phone call to persons unknown following the incident.
The suspects took off and officers converged on the scene with two helicopters overhead assisting in the search.
The deputy suffered undisclosed injuries but they were serious enough to send him to the hospital.
