This list of crimes was compiled from censored police reports and written by Lydia Sprague.
Threats
Police responded to a 911 call report of a man pulling a knife on the employees of a store in the 600 block of Denny Way at 8:48 p.m. on Aug. 10.
When officers arrived, the employees were standing outside the store and pointing north toward the alley. Officers checked the area for the suspect but couldn’t find him.
The store employees, who gave a description of the suspect, said he enters the store regularly and has caused problems in the past by disturbing customers.
On this day, he seemed to be more agitated than usual, they said, and was frightening the customers. One of the employees told the suspect to leave the store. The man went outside but didn’t leave.
The employee went outside to ask the suspect to leave the property, and the suspect pulled out a fixed-blade knife and told the employee to leave him alone or he was going to attack. Another employee was outside when this happened, and he said he feared for his safety and called the police.
Employees said the suspect was waving the knife around and left after the employees told him they called 911. The victim told police he believed the suspect would have attacked him otherwise.
Because they couldn’t find the suspect, police left the scene.
At 10:51 p.m., police received a second 911 call from the store, stating the suspect had returned and was standing outside the front door. An officer was near the location and responded immediately.
Officers entered the store and talked with the victim, asking him to step outside to point out the person that had harassed him earlier. The victim identified the suspect, and he was immediately arrested. However, he did not have a knife in his possession at the time of the arrest.
He was transported to the West Precinct and subsequently booked into the King County Jail for harassment.
Both victims said the suspect had threatened future bodily injury, and they feared for their safety.
Park after-dark
On Aug. 13, around 2 p.m., two Queen Anne residents called 911 to report a robbery that had occurred about 12 hours earlier at a park in the 2700 block of West Smith Street.
The two males said they’d been hanging out with their friend for about 30 minutes when another group of teens, probably about 15, arrived and hung out on the other side of the parking lot.
After another 30 minutes, four or five of the teens approached the victims and began punching and kicking them until they fell to the ground.
One of the victims said he was dragged between two parked cars on West Smith Street and beaten and kicked at gunpoint, while the suspects were yelling, “Give me your stuff.”
According to the victims, there were four or five attackers on each of the two victims. The victim said one of the suspects was holding a small, semi-automatic handgun, which he pointed at the victim’s head while the others kicked him. The victim said he was hit on the head with the gun once, and he grabbed the barrel to direct it away from his head.
The suspects eventually took the victim’s backpack the victim was wearing.
At the same time, the second victim was also being beaten and robbed at gunpoint. He later told police he saw a revolver.
One of the suspects kept yelling for the victim to give them his belt. He said he thought he heard the handgun being cocked while he was being kicked.
He was also dragged across the parking lot by four or five suspects, who eventually took his belt.
The third friend, who only witnessed the event, said he’d been standing on the other side of the park talking to some girls when the attack began. He ran away and hid. But he was able to see one of the suspects point a gun at his friend and tell him to open the trunk of his car.
The suspects took a backpack from the trunk. The backpack contained sunglasses and a new pair of shoes in a box.
After the attack, the victims found the backpack and some of its contents on the sidewalk after the suspects left the scene.
One of the victims was missing one red shoe, which fell off during the attack.
Hostile shoplifter
The manager of a store in the 2000 block of 15th Avenue West called 911 after a shoplifter tried to punch him in the face in the parking lot after stealing alcohol. Police arrived at 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10.
The victim said he watched the suspect walk into the store, take three bottles of alcohol and walk down the aisle, placing the bottles in a reusable bag. The suspect walked past the register without paying for the items and exited the store.
The victim stopped the suspect outside. The suspect turned around and raised his fist, swinging at the victim, who moved out of the way.
The suspect dropped the bag and ran off. As he ran off, the suspect tripped and fell on the pavement. He got up and got into a vehicle.
As the suspect drove out of the parking lot, he nearly struck several pedestrians and vehicles.
The store manager recovered all of the stolen merchandise, and none of it was not damaged.