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- 14th/Jackson armed robbery reported: Police are investigating an armed robbery attempt reported near 12th and Jackson Monday around 5:30 PM in which the young man targeted told police he decided to challenge his would be assailant:
The victim described the interaction to police.
There were no arrests. - Madison Valley suspicious death update: Authorities have identified the 29-year-old woman in a May 2nd suspicious death inside a Madison Valley home but medical investigators have yet to provide more information on the case including the cause and manner of death. Tuesday afternoon, a SPD spokesperson said the case remains an open and active investigation.
- 95 Slide gun incident: Police were investigating a disturbance involving a gun outside sports bar 95 Slide following the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. According to police radio reports, officers were called to the scene at Pike and Harvard just before 2 AM on May 3rd to a report that a male patron had pulled a gun on a security guard and possibly robbed him before fleeing the area. Police were searching for a light complected black male with a stocky build, bald or short hair, wearing a white button-up shirt and carrying a black pistol. A search for the suspect was not successful. The incident is being investigated as an assault.
- Hotel death: The death of a woman in her 20s found by hotel visitors in a small pool at the Homewood Suites on Pike at Boren was likely an accident, police say. The April 29th incident brought a large Seattle Fire and SPD response to the backside of the facility where the pool is located. SFD says a woman in her 20s was found unconscious in the water but CPR efforts by those who found her and arriving medical crews were not successful.
- Construction site chase: SPD lost a suspect in a chase through a construction site in the 800 block of E Thomas early on the morning of Saturday, May 9th. According to the report on the incident, a security monitoring company reported seeing a man on camera at the site and contacted police. A K9 unit arrived and officers took up positions to surround the building. But after pursuing the suspect through the site and repeatedly losing track of him, the suspect ultimately slipped away — but had to leave behind his “personal effects”:
- Summit Ave market burglary: The suspects in an early morning May 6th break-in at the Thomas Street Market in the 200 block of Summit Ave E were caught on video:
There were no reported arrests. - 10th Ave arrest: Police took a woman suffering an apparent mental crisis was taken into custody the night of May 5th after taking off her pants and attacking an employee from a nearby business who asked her to move along in the 1500 block of 10th Ave. She was booked into King County Jail for assault.
- UPDATE: Here’s a late-breaking bonus item from SPD —
Burglar Arrested After Stopping to Leave Signature At Scene of the Crime
A 22-year-old man botched a burglary at a First Hill apartment building Monday night and then botched his getaway, after he stopped near the scene of the crime to sign his sub-par criminal handiwork, like some terrible Batman villain.
Witnesses called police just after 10 PM when they saw the 22-year-old man trying to force his way into a secured bike room of an apartment building in the 1000 block of Union St. Officers arrived and found a damaged door, but no suspect.
As Officer John Chesney searched the area, he found the suspect had stopped to tag a concrete pillar, less than a block from the scene of the burglary, and arrested him. Officers found the man was carrying meth, heroin and a number of house and car keys, and booked him into the King County Jail.
