From South Park on July 13, a man standing on the corner of 10th Ave S/S Cloverdale St shortly after midnight was approached by three men. One of them asked the victim for a dollar. He declined and the men started reaching into his pockets. The victim took off running but one of the suspects pulled out a taser gun and shot him in the abdomen. The three suspects took off running in different directions and the victim walked home before calling 911. He had a visible burn with dark bruising developing on the left side of his stomach but declined hospital care. The suspect with the taser was described as a black male in his mid-20s with scraggly facial hair, 5 foot 10 inches, 140 pounds with a grey wool shirt and dark pants.
On July 10 at approximately 2 a.m. police responded to a robbery call on the 3200 block of California Ave S.W. The female victim flagged down a young boy riding his bike home and asked him to call 911. The boy called his stepmother, who came to the scene, gave the woman a sweater to keep warm and called police. The victim, described as “extremely intoxicated” told police she came to West Seattle from Edmonds to enjoy Summer Fest and, after drinking wine and liquor all day, lost track of her friends. She said she was walking down an alley when a group of people stole her backpack and stabbed her in the back with a knife (police examined her back and found several scratch marks consistent with fingernails but no knife wound). She could not describe the suspects and could not remember how she got from the alley to California Ave, but believed she had been drugged. The victim was also wearing a hospital bracelet and told police it was from, “some hospital for drinking too much.” She was transported to a hospital for further evaluation.
A musician’s home on SW Orchard was burglarized on July 7, but only a laptop was stolen. Sometime between noon and 4 p.m. a burglar pried open a ground floor window and made his/her way to the basement recording studio that was deadbolted shut. The unknown suspect kicked the door down and took a brand new Apple Macbook Pro laptop but left guitars, amps, speakers, mixing boards, recording equipment, keyboards, drums and a shotgun in a hard case alone.
Editor’s reminder: There have been several burglary reports recently where thieves use ladders, metal lattice or anything available in victims’ backyards to gain height and access homes through higher windows. Southwest Precinct CPT Officer Jonathan Kiehn has suggested keeping ladders (or anything potentially climbable) locked up to deter this burglar advantage.
Robberies by block: corner of S Cloverdale St/10th Ave S
Burglaries by block: 3900 SW Orchard St, 5900 California Ave SW, 6000 17th Ave SW, 10200 31st Ave SW, 9200 2nd Ave SW,
Car prowls by block: 5600 40th Ave SW, 8000 Fauntleroy Way SW, 3800 34th Ave SW, 7900 11th Ave SW, 5400 17th Ave SW, 3600 SW Oregon St, 4900 Erskine Way SW, 3000 39th Ave SW, corner of California Ave SW/SW Admiral Way, 4000 45th Ave SW, 2600 47th Ave SW, 4100 45th Ave SW, 7900 34th Ave SW, 5600 45th Ave SW (2), 5100 SW Waite St, 6000 Fauntleroy Way SW
Car thefts by block: 8800 42nd Ave SW, 9400 6th Ave SW, 7900 Detroit Ave SW, 6000 31st Ave SW, 7900 17th Ave SW (2), 8600 25th Ave SW, 9400 30th Ave SW, 9400 35th Ave SW
