Car shot with a handgun

Police were flagged down at 25th Avenue S.W. and S.W. Genesee Street just past midnight on Tues., July 5 after receiving a report of an assault with a handgun.

The victim said his vehicle had been shot at with a handgun three times. He explained that he had been driving through the Don Armeni boat ramp watching the fireworks, when a black male in his mid-20s yelled at him. The victim described the man as being 5 ft. 10 inches, with a medium build, wearing a white shirt and white pants with a tattoo on the right side of his face.

The victim felt like he was being challenged to a fight. He drove slowly past the suspect, who suddenly pulled out a handgun and fired three rounds into the rear of his vehicle from about 10 feet away. The victim said that a white Cadillac Escalade was nearby, but he wasn’t sure if it belonged to the suspect.

Police searched the area for the suspect but could not find him. No one was injured in the shooting.

Homeowner robbed while on vacation

Officers responded to a call around 11:55 a.m. on Tues., July 5 about a burglary on the 4000 block of 37th Avenue S.W. The victim said he had left his house at 10 a.m. on Fri., July 1 and had just returned to find the back door to the kitchen open, with the glass broken out. He also found a hammer in the kitchen that was not his.

Since the homeowner had touched a number of the surfaces, including the door handles and the hammer, there were no fingerprints available. He was not aware of any missing items.

Apartment complex break-in

An officer was dispatched after a report of a burglary at 10 p.m. on Wed., June 29 on the 9000 block of 35th Avenue S.W. The victim said she left her apartment at 8 a.m. on Tues., July 28 and had returned at 6:30 p.m. to find that her unit had been robbed.

A Ziploc bag containing $1,200 was missing, as well as three or four miscellaneous gift cards worth $100, a white gold ring and a diamond necklace. Another $200 was also missing from a desk drawer in the living room.

The victim explained that she lives next door to a maintenance room, which contains copies of keys to all apartments in the building and she had discovered that the room was unlocked, potentially giving suspects access to every apartment in the building.

Robbery in California Ave. Apartment
Officers responded to a call at 1:20 p.m. on Tues., June 28 on the 6400 block of California Avenue S.W. They arrived to find a “hostile victim,” who said she had been sleeping in a chair and woke to find the suspect punching her in the head multiple times. The suspect tried to grab her purse and the victim reached for it, clinging to his shirt. He pulled her to the ground, injuring her left knee, took the purse and left. The victim said she did not know the man.

A witness to the attack said that the two did know each other and were possibly dating.