Woman hit with rock during Seattle robbery, police investigating
Seattle police are investigating after a woman was hit with a rock during a robbery Tuesday, according to the Seattle Police Department.
Around 6 a.m. Tuesday, an officer was flagged down in the 1500 block of 3rd Avenue.
The woman told police that a man approached her at a bus stop, showed her holding a rock the size of his fist and hit her in the head with it.
The woman said the man took her cell phone and ran away.
Seattle man stabbed while jogging on Queen Anne
A man was stabbed Tuesday while jogging on a trail north of Queen Anne, according to the Seattle Police Department.
Around 8:48 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a report that a man had been stabbed near 3rd Avenue N and Etruria Street.
Officers found a 21-year-old man with a stab wound to his abdomen.
The man told police he had been jogging on the South Ship Canal Trail when he was stabbed, but he could not provide a description of a suspect.
Officers administered first aid while medics with the Seattle Fire Department transported him to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition.
Seattle Police Arrest Man for Armed Robbery
Seattle police arrested a man who they say crashed a shopping cart through a window at a closed sporting goods store and later pointed what appeared to be a rifle at officers.
At 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, police received a report of a shoplifting in the 2600 block of Southwest Barton Street in West Seattle after the man was seen entering the store after crashing a cart through a window.
When police arrived and spoke with the man, he pointed what appeared to be a rifle at officers and then went back inside the store. It later turned out that the rifle was a pellet gun.
Eventually, the man left the store carrying a pellet rifle, firearm ammunition, boots, two coats and a baseball bat.
Officers were able to de-escalate the situation and determined the subject was a danger to himself and others and transported him to Harborview Medical Center for a mental health evaluation.
The police, with his permission, confiscated firearms and ammunition from the suspect’s house.
Officers will seek an extreme danger protection order to prevent him from getting a gun in the future.
