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Police seek teen in Volunteer Park gun hold-up – UPDATE

A woman was robbed at gunpoint near Volunteer Park this afternoon by a suspect described as a black teenager wearing a white shirt, dark pants, and carrying a purple shirt. The Central District News first reported the crime in their daily scanner report at 3:21 PM.

The woman was injured in the attack but her condition is unknown at this time.

UPDATE:
Seattle Police Department has confirmed that they are looking for an armed suspect and are continuing to investigate the robbery.

The 28-year-old woman was treated at the scene by paramedics for minor injuries suffered in the attack, according to Seattle Fire Department spokesperson Dana Vander Houwen.

UPDATE:
The Slog has details from the victim:

Ashley Wolff, a 24-year-old Capitol Hill resident, says she was walking on 15th Ave between E Prospect Street and E Ward at about 3pm when an African-American man in his late teens or early twenties approached her, tapped her on the shoulder and asked her for change for a dollar.

When Wolff said she didn’t have change, the man demanded her iPod Nano. When she refused, he pulled out a black handgun. Wolff screamed and took off running, but the man chased her down the block and tackled her to the ground. The man took her iPod and ran off.

Bystanders called 911. “There were a lot of witnesses,” Wolff says. “There were kids playing out there on the sidewalk.”

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