Surveillance video added on Jan. 27.
Press release from KCSO
Seattle-The King County Sheriff’s Office has released a video of a robbery that occurred on Tuesday evening around 7:30 PM at a pawn shop in the 10200 block of 16 Ave SW.
The video shows four men entering the store and ordering customers and employees to get to the ground. The video also shows a suspect forcing a youth to the ground. At least one of the suspects was armed with a handgun. The others carried baseball bats.
While in the store the suspects struck an employee in the shoulder with a bat and smashed a glass display case. The suspects took jewelry and an undisclosed amount of money and fled on foot.
The suspects are described as 4 black males, wearing dark clothing.
If you have information related to this crime please call the King County Sheriff’s Office at (206) 296-3311.
Update for Jan. 25
At least four men entered the crowded Pawn Pros pawn shop in White Center around 7:30 in the evening on Jan. 24 - one of them armed with a handgun and the others with baseball bats, according to Sgt. Cindi West with the King County Sheriff's Office.
No arrests have been made at this time and West said detectives are still interviewing witnesses and securing surveillance footage that may have captured the suspects on video (if that footage is released it will be posted here).
West said the robbers used bats to shatter jewelry cases as the men stole cash and jewelry in the heist.
One employee was struck with a bat, but not seriously injured. West could not confirm an earlier report that a 9-year-old girl was shoved to the ground, but did say there were young children in the store at the time.
Original post
Pawn Pros in White Center at 10207 16th ave sw. was robbed by "4 men with guns and bats" around 7:30 pm, Tuesday, Jan, 24 according to the wife of an employee. She stated that people were in the store shopping with children when the suspects entered. Her husband was hit with a bat but was not seriously injured.
The store was previously robbed in December.
KOMO news filed a report and spoke to Sgt. John Hall of the King County Sheriff's Office, who said that the men entered the store demanding that everyone inside get down on the floor. According to the KOMO report "The owner of the store told police the robbers violently shoved a 9-year-old girl to the ground before smashing a number of jewelry cases," then stole what they could.
One employee was beaten and was taken to the hospital.
