Assault
A Seattle Police Officer was dispatched to investigate a reported assault at 11th Avenue and East Pine Street after 2 a.m. Jan. 30.
The victims were two males walking home from the clubs along the 1600 block of 11th Avenue. The suspects were described as two white males in their late 20s to early 30s, with skateboards.
Witnesses and the victims gave the following story: As the victims were walking home they passed the suspects and addressed them with, “Hey cutie,” because the men found the suspects attractive. The suspects responded with anti-gay commentary laced with profanity. The victims yelled back, “You don't f**kin talk to us like that.”
As the disturbance grew and various homosexual slurs were yelled, witnesses gathered. The two suspects began to walk north on 11th Avenue and the witnesses dissipated.
After the onlookers had cleared, the two suspects ran back to knock both the victims onto the ground, causing an abrasion on the right wrist of one victim. One remaining witness yelled that he was calling the police and the suspects fled north on 11th Avenue yelling obscenities as they ran.
Robbery
Just before 3 a.m. Jan. 31, a two-officer patrol was dispatched to a robbery call at South Nye Place and 20th Avenue South.
On scene the victim claimed he was robbed at gunpoint by five black males while trying to buy marijuana.
According to the victim, the five suspects approached him outside the Cowgirls Club in Pioneer Square. They asked him if he wanted to buy some “weed.” He was interested so he got into a white 4-door Chevy Blazer with the suspects. The victim needed money and the suspects said they would take him to a Bank of America ATM on First Hill where he withdrew $300. He gave them the money but received nothing.
The suspects pulled to the side of the road at South Nye Street and 20th Avenue and told the victim to get out of the vehicle. The victim refused to do so until he got the marijuana he paid for. One of the suspects then got out of the Blazer, walked around to the victim’s door and opened it. He put a black handgun to his head and told him to get out. The victim complied and the suspects’ vehicles drove southbound from the 800 block of 20th Avenue South.
An area check was conducted by multiple units with negative results.
Officers dropped the victim off at 12th Avenue and East Jefferson Street.
Robbery
At approximately 12:22 p.m. Jan. 31, a patrol car was dispatched to investigate a robbery that had just occurred on East James Street near 21st Avenue. The responding officer spoke with the victim of the robbery on scene.
As the victim was entering the apartment building located on East James Street two black males were exiting. Suddenly the two shoved into the victim, grabbing his iPhone from his hand. The victim reported that the two suspects then ran off southbound on 21st Avenue. The victim was uninjured.
Another tenant from inside the same apartment building stated a few minutes before the crime that she observed a black male roughly 5-foot-8-inch approximately 16 to 17 years of age attempting to break into the laundry room. The suspect was wearing a red and black hoodie and black pants. She claims to know the suspect only as “BJ” and could recognize him if she saw him again.
An extensive area check was conducted by multiple officers with negative results.
Erratic behavior
Police units responded to a silent panic alarm from a 7-11 at 999 N.W. Leary Way before 11 p.m. Jan. 31. A witness called 911 reporting a male was in the store acting odd and brandishing a gun.
Everyone inside was able to flee the 7-Eleven. The man inside, longhaired and bearded, could be seen acting erratically inside. He claimed to be the “Taliban” at one point and bathed himself in beer he poured over his head. Multiple patrol officers, supervisors, SWAT and police negotiators all responded.
Almost three hours after police responded, the suspect exited through the front door and followed commands to get down on the ground. He was taken into custody.
The gun he carried was taken into evidence and identified as an airsoft gun.
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