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911 | Armed robbery outside Pike/Pine pizza joint, gunfire on 19th Ave, Boylston toilet arson

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  • E Pike armed robbery: A bandit armed with a gun and a skateboard assaulted a woman and stole her backpack in a reported armed robbery before overpowering security and escaping the area outside an E Pike pizza joint Monday night. According to the SPD brief on the 8:30 PM attack, the victim told police she was sitting down to eat pizza at an outside table when the suspect got up from another table and began assaulting her before pulling out the gun. According to police, private security “briefly detained the suspect” and forced him to drop the gun to the ground but he was able to break free, grab the gun, and flee the area. Police searched the area near Broadway Ct were the suspect was last seen and the Seattle University campus was briefly put on lockdown during the response but there was no reported arrest.

  • Residents wait for the OK to reenter their building during the Boylston Ave fire response (Image: Capitol Hill Seattle Facebook Group)

    Boylston toilet arson: Residents were evacuated in a Thursday night arson fire on Boylston Ave that was extinguished before it could spread and do more damage. Seattle Fire responded to the blaze around 10:20 PM near Boylston and E Howell where someone had set a chemical toilet on fire at the site of the occupied building undergoing a remodel. “Fire investigators ruled the incident as incendiary (intentionally set) and have forwarded their findings to SPD’s Arson and Bomb Squad,” Seattle Fire tells CHS. Police say the fire did more than $10,000 in damage to the building and “fully destroyed the toilet.”

  • 19th Ave shots fired: Multiple 911 callers reported gunshots around 7:15 PM Saturday in the area of 19th and Pike. Police responded to the area after the reports of seven to ten shots and talked with witnesses who reported the incident involved a male and female in an argument. According to SPD radio dispatch updates, the male had taken the gun away from the other party and left the area. Police say they eventually made two arrests and confiscated a 9mm pistol. There were no injuries and no property damage was found. SPD’s Gun Violence Reduction Unit detectives responded to the scene following the previous weekend’s burst of deadly gun violence across the city.
  • First Hill phone thief busted: Police were able to chase down the suspect in a phone robbery after a “short foot pursuit” in a Sunday incident on First Hill. According to SPD, the thief grabbed the phone from his victim in a street mugging near Marion and Terry just after 9 PM. “Backing units located the suspect nearby. After a short foot pursuit, the suspect gave up and was detained without incident,” SPD’s brief on the arrest reads. Police were unable to locate the stolen phone.
 

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