The King County Sheriff’s Department reports that a 22-year old Burien man was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday morning (Jan. 26th) around 1am while walking near Chelsea Park when two men approached him, brandished a gun to his chest and stole his cell phone.
According to Sgt. John Urquhart, both suspects then ran away, but were chased by the victim. When they saw this the suspects popped off a few shots at him, which generated several “shots fired” calls to 911.
The victim didn’t give up though – police say that he caught up with the two men in Chelsea Park (at SW 136th and 8th Ave SW) and starting fighting with the unarmed one. But the one with the gun pistol-whipped the victim on the back of the head. The fight ended when both fighters got tired and the two suspects “ran’ off again.
One deputy looking for the ‘shots fired” call found the victim staggering down the street with head lacerations. A K-9 unit tracked one of the suspects to the park nearby, and also found the gun that was used hidden under a garbage can along with the stolen cell phone.
The victim, a Burien man, was treated and released.
The captured suspect, a Seattle man, age 19, was taken to the hospital and stitched up before being booked in jail for investigation of Robbery.
The second suspect was not located.
According to numerous witnesses, two separate crime incidents resulted in shots fired and tires slashed on at least six cars near Burien’s Three Tree Point neighborhood over the last week.
Here are details as relayed to us by neighbors:
- On Sunday, Oct. 11th, shots were fired during an incident where one neighbor allegedly assaulted guests of another neighbor’s residence. No one was injured, and apparently only minor injuries resulted from the assault. At least eight King County Sheriff’s Department officers responded, along with one helicopter, pictured (photos courtesy Dane Johnson) and, according to witnesses, they were heavily armed as they searched the neighborhood for the suspect. The assaulting individual was apprehended and taken to jail. Officers have been called to the residence multiple times in the past, and reports are that actions are being taken to get the renters evicted from this property. Here are two postings from the Three Tree Point Yahoo Group:
“16XXX Maplewild, it’s a rental that was recently foreclosed on … one of the individuals living there is often under the influence, easily agitated and violent when provoked.”
“FYI, last night’s ( ~ 11:00 – 1:00) police activity in the 16500 block of Maplewild SW was due to a neighborhood incident where one of the neighbors assaulted guests of another neighbor’s residence ending with gunshots being fired. No one was shot and I believe only minor injuries resulted from the assault. At least 8 officers responded and they were heavily armed as they searched the neighborhood. The assaulting individual was being taken to jail. This is not the first time this has happened w/ this individual. Officers have been called to the residence (a rental at 16XXX Maplewild) multiple times in the past. Actions are being taken to get the renters evicted from this property.”
- On Thursday, Oct. 8th, six cars had their tires slashed on the north end of Maplewild after midnight. No suspects were seen, but a police report was taken. Here’s a posting from the Three Tree Point Yahoo Group:
“I don’t know if anyone knew what happened on the north end of Maplewild last week (Thursday night Oct. 8th), but six cars (that we know of) had their tires slashed. Ours had 7 stabs in it and was parked in front of our garage. The police came and did a report, but we all know how far that will go. It was after midnight on Thursday because we had been out to the airport before that. It was certainly a waste for everyone involved, I was out of town so I don’t know if it was in the three tree group or not. Just letting people know how they have to be so careful with their property, and never ever leave anything valuable in their car.”
(Photos by Dane Johnson)
Barry L. Saunders was arrested Wed. afternoon in Portland.
The Seattle P-I reports that Barry L. Saunders, the suspect in last Saturday’s deadly shooting at Southcenter Mall, was captured and arrested Wed. afternoon (Nov. 26th), apparently in Portland, Oregon.
Police say that Saunders is the gunman who shot 16-year-old Daiquan L. Jones to death on the first floor of the remodeled shopping center.
Jermaine D. McGowan, 16, was also shot. At last report, he was still in satisfactory condition at Harborview Medical Center.
Full story is here.
As you’ve probably heard by now, a shooting inside Tukwila’s Westfield Southcenter Mall on Saturday Nov. 22nd left one young man dead and another seriously injured, the gunman still at large, and the mall locked down for a while before being evacuated.
Police are still searching for the suspect.
We’ve managed to gather several videos related to the shooting:
KOMO News:
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CELL PHONE VIDEO NEAR VICTIM:
TWO YOUNG WOMEN STUCK IN PARKING GARAGE TRAFFIC:
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A shooting inside Tukwila’s Westfield Southcenter Mall Saturday afternoon left one man dead and another seriously injured, the gunman still at large, and the mall locked down for a while before being evacuated.
We know you don’t read the B-Town Blog for this kind of news, but we had to post it anyways since Burien is less than five miles away.
Here are two videos related to the incident – the first taken on a cell phone by someone who walked up to and near the victim, and the second from two young women stuck in traffic trying to get to the mall:
For full coverage of this terrible incident, we recommend reading:
VANCOUVER, B.C. – The bad guy who fled after shooting a man dead in his SUV in Boulevard Park has been arrested in Vancouver, B.C, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office.
A $2 milion dollar warrant, along with a rather odd psychedelic mugshot (see pic) was issued Wednesday for Cesar Trochez-Jimenez, 27, charging him with first-degree murder.
Vancouver police stopped him Wednesday night in a park and questioned him, prompting him to give the officers a fake name. Through further investigation, they discovered he was wanted in Seattle on a murder warrant, Urquhart said.
“One of their people put two and two together and knew we were looking for this guy,” sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said. “That was some good police work up there.”
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the victim, 25, was found Monday behind the wheel of a 2000 Ford Explorer in an apartment complex parking lot at 1100 99th St. S. He’d been shot multiple times.
Police tracked the suspect to Blaine. They knew he’d spent the night in a motel room but he fled before they could find him. Urquhart was uncertain how soon he would extradited to King County.
The shooting apparently was over a woman, Urquhart said.
“It’s a story as old as time,” he said.
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A $2 million warrant was issued Wednesday by King County Sheriff’s for Cesar Trochez-Jimenez (pictured at left in a weird quasi-psychedelic graphic – who makes these things?), a 27-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of a man in Boulevard Park.
The victim, 25, was found Monday behind the wheel of an SUV in the parking lot of Willow Terrace Apartments, located at 1100 South 99th Street in Boulevard Park, around 10:35pm after a resident reported hearing gunshots. He’d been shot multiple times.
Investigators tracked the suspect to Bellingham and Blaine, near the Canadian border. But he has so far eluded authorities, who think he has returned to Seattle.
The 170-pound, 5-foot-7 suspect has black hair and brown eyes. He is considered armed and dangerous, sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said.
Anyone with information is asked to call sheriff’s detectives immediately at 911 or (206) 296-3311.
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BOULEVARD PARK – A man was found shot dead in Boulevard Park late Monday, slumped behind the wheel of an SUV, according to King County Sheriffs.
Deputies were called to the Willow Terrace Apartments, located at 1100 South 99th Street around 10:35pm after a resident reported hearing gunshots.
The deputies arrived to find a Ford Explorer with a dead man at the wheel in the parking lot, Sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said.
The man, believed to be in his 20s, was not a tenant of the apartment complex. He had been shot at least once, though multiple shots were fired.
There have been no arrests, Urquhart said.
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TUKWILA – One man was shot to death and another critically injured at a party to help promote a book about rapper Dr. Dre early Sunday in the parking lot outside a crowded Tukwila golf course restaurant.
Police arrived at the scene shortly after 2 a.m., responding to a 911 call about shots fired outside the Foster Golf Links restaurant, said Tukwila police spokesman Mike Murphy.
There they found a chaotic scene of 200 to 300 people who had been leaving a party at Gordon’s on the Green at the Foster golf course. The party followed a book-signing by Bruce Williams and Donnell Alexander, authors of a book about Dr. Dre entitled “Rollin’ With Dre: The Unauthorized Account.”
Dr. Dre himself was not at the book signing or the party, but several other high-profile guests may have been, including former Seattle SuperSonics Gary Payton, Sam Perkins and Jerome Kersey – who were invited to attend, but it’s not known yet if they were actually there.
The party had been peaceful and orderly throughout the evening, said Gordon Harris, owner of the restaurant. But as the patrons were leaving the building, an altercation broke out in the parking lot and shots were fired.
Many of the people inside and outside the building panicked when they heard the gunfire. Someone kicked out the glass in a doorway, while others got on the ground or ran to the aid of the victims.
Additional police reinforcements were called in to help control the huge crowd at the scene and to help medics get through to the victims amid the mayhem.
Officers determined that five to eight shots were fired during the altercation and that two men were shot. Both victims were taken by ambulance to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
One of the victims, a 24-year-old from Renton, died from his injuries. The other, a 25-year-old from Skyway, remains in critical condition, Murphy said.
“We’re fortunate that no one else was hit,” he said, considering the density of the crowd and the number of shots fired.
As medics were transporting the victims to Harborview, about 100 people who had been at the party followed the ambulances in their cars and created a scene at the hospital. Some reportedly tried to climb into the ambulances as the victims were being taken out on stretchers, witnesses said.
Seattle police called in reinforcements to enforce crowd control at the hospital.
Police are still trying to piece together information about the incident and what led to the altercation and gunshots. All witnesses said the party had been a peaceful affair until it broke up and people were leaving the restaurant.
No suspects have been arrested yet.
Anyone with information about the shooting is encouraged to contact Tukwila police at (206) 433-1808.
Harris said some of his employees were shaken up by the incident. And he worries about the impact of the shooting on efforts to reclaim Tukwila’s image.
“It’s another strike against the city of Tukwila,” he said. “We’ve been working hard to change that image, and then this happens.”
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SEATAC – A Kent woman is in serious condition after being shot on State Route 518 while en route to the Burien area Tuesday night.
The King County Sheriff’s office says the 34-year-old woman was driving westbound on SR-518, between I-5 and SeaTac International Airport and Burien, when someone fired several shots at her car, striking her once.
At least two shots were fired from a car that drove up beside her about 10:40 p.m. She pulled off the road near the light rail station at South 154th Street and International Boulevard, where police found her. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where she was in serious condition.
Detectives had little information about the suspect but did not think the shooting was random, sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said.
The woman had no idea why someone would want to shoot her, but told police that her home in Kent had been shot up a few weeks ago, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
No arrests and no specific description of the suspect vehicle.
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