HILLMAN CITY – Seattle police are searching for two men who robbed a Hillman City couple and assaulted the husband early this morning.
Seattle Police Department spokesperson Renee Witt said it was 3:30 am Sunday when a woman heard a knock on the front door of her home in the 5800 block of Renton Avenue South:
She peeked out a window and asked who it was. The subject asked for Ricky. The victim told him to leave and called her husband who was at work.
Several minutes later, the victim heard noises at the back door. She went to look and observed two suspects huddled near the back door. One suspect pointed a handgun towards her… she immediately ran to the front of the house and called 911. At the same time, the victim’s husband arrived home.
The victim said she heard a commotion outside and saw her husband being chased by one of the suspects. She then heard a loud crash at the back door and was confronted by the other suspect who demanded money and drugs and was armed with a handgun.
Witt said the victim gave the first suspect – a tall, white, slender male in his 20’s, with a mustache – an undisclosed amount of cash and he fled the scene. He was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and gloves.
Meanwhile, the victim’s husband was chased down and caught by the second suspect – an unknown race male, mid 20’s, shorter, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and bandanna over his face – near the corner of South Juneau and Renton Avenue South, where Witt said he was pistol-whipped and beaten.
He was subsequently transported to Harborview where he was treated for his injuries. According to Witt, detectives tried to interview him there but he was hostile and argumentative and refused to provide any information.
The suspects remain at-large.
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And THIS is the robbery that makes the Seattle Times. The robbery where the husband – the victim – is “hostile and argumentative” and unhelpful to the police. The robbery where the wife gives the robbers an unspecified amount of cash to go away. Maybe I’m overstepping here, but this sure does not look like a random event, but a case of drug dealer vs. drug dealer. And this one makes the news and makes the whole Rainier Valley look like it deserves itself.
I personally know 5 families- good friends – who have been robbed in the last two months. None of that has been reported, or solved by police. The multiple shootings don’t even get coverage in the Seattle Times. But this does. I can’t wait for the comments on the Times site to start … . Ugh.
Yeah, there are a couple of other details (about the perps) that makes you wonder about the Seattle Times.
I don’t read the comments anymore…I already know what they’re going to say. It’s never pretty, and i get totally angry.
@SusanH: I feel you. My house was broken into recently and nobody reported on it. Not even me.
Seriously though, I can’t speak for the Seattle Times or anyone else, but unfortunately, the RVP doesn’t have the resources to report on much more than what SPD feeds into the PR pipeline. Not to mention, SPD is notoriously unhelpful and unresponsive when asked to provide information about anything they don’t choose to publicize.
To be clear, I’m referring specifically to command staff and the team I fondly refer to as the Media Non-Response Unit, NOT Captain Nolan and others at our local precinct who are awesome and always as open and honest as possible.
Ugh, so sorry about your house! I wasn’t in any way complaining about coverage here at the RVP. Just what the Seattle Times chooses to report (or what it is fed by the SPD? I never thought about it that that way…)
Anyway, I can no longer find this story over at the Times (it was on the opening page yesterday), so I won’t get to read all the inspiring and helpful comments by old men in Monroe.
Thank you for the morning laugh SusanH:
Anyway, I can no longer find this story over at the Times (it was on the opening page yesterday), so I won’t get to read all the inspiring and helpful comments by old men in Monroe.,/i>
I’m conflicted. I feel ashamed that we as a society allow conditions of institutional poverty and despair to exist in a country of such great wealth and promise. These conditions lead to the hopelessness that cause people to have such low self worth and so few options that armed robbery seems to be a viable option. Was that handful of cash worth risking your life? It better be, because one of these days you’re going to knock on the wrong door and end up dead. I don’t think any possession in my home is worth a life, but I will never let someone else decide whether my family and I live or die.
0eople this is happening everday. More gunshots breakin assaults. WE MUST BE GOOD NEIGHBORS A WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER AND WE MUST PRAY. PEOPEL HAVE LOST THEIR MORAL COMPASS A LONG TIME AGO. LET’S SHOW OUR STRENGTH IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND SAY. NO MORE. GET A STREET WATCH GOING PUT UP LIGHTS. CAMERS AND LET’S STOP THIS MADNESS
A little off topic but . . when I got off the Light Rail at the Columbia City Station, coming from the airport, last Thursday night about 7:30, at the west side of the station, there were a few sheriffs who had handcuffed two young men to the railing. My first thought was, thank goodness, they caught the thugs preying on commuters and others. But, I haven’t read anything about this in the Times or here. Anyone know what happened? Thanks.
What happened to the story in the Times an the PI about the woman who was mugged coming out of the Safeway (where the shooting was on Thursday), her head hit the parking lot, they took her purse. This was not an elderly woman either!!
I’m in that parking lot almost every day. This is crazy.
And… that being said, I love my neighborhood and my neighbors!!
Without intending to offend anyone who’s been harmed by burglary or robbery, I wanted to ask folks to please report these things when they happen. At the very least, please submit an electonic report of the incident by using SPD’s website:
http://www.seattle.gov/police/report/default.htm
I live near the Columbia City/Hillman City border. Of the 10 homes closest to mine, I know of 6 that have been burglarized within the past 2 years. My wife caught someone casing our house for a break in and my awesome neighbor caught someone else casing the house too. This trend is really discouraging. The only way that I see our community ever getting additional police resources to deal with this problem is if we can document what is really happening. The more crime we report, the more evidence we will have to support what we’ve all been saying-crime is on the rise in our neighborhood and we deserve a stronger response from the City and the SPD.
@Laurie
I thought it was an elderly woman, 58-60 or so.
Mark B!!!
I am 57 and hardly consider myself elderly. I am a heck of a lot fitter than many of the obese teens I see. I don’t expect to be elderly until I am in my 80s. Heck my mom is 82 and I don’t consider her elderly either.
@SolvayGirl
I know, I didn’t mean elderly probably should have said matronly. I just meant that she was no “spring chicken” so to speak.
Sorry Ma’am. J/K
@Damager, thanks for the link. I didn’t know about this function, and am sure it will come in handy.
This is nothing that someone who exercised their second amendment rights would be too worried about. Protect the Constitution. Not all of it is so horrible, as the slick socialist propaganda suggests. Having the right to protect yourself is a good thing.
The data shows that when guns are outlawed in a community, the crime skyrockets. The reason is that the thugs know they can enter a home without being shot and killed.
All that was necessary for the woman of the house to do was tell the man at the door that she had a large caliber handgun and she knew how to use it, and that he should try the socialist neighbor next door who thought gun ownership was so terrible. An NRA sticker on the front door might help, too.
Knock knock.
— Who’s there?
Mr. Bad Guy, let me in. Now! Or I will break down this door!
— Wait just a moment, I need to point this 9mm Glock at your groin, first. Okay — come in!
Reminds me of the “Give Blood” stickers folk back in Britain put by the front door, to keep Jeohvah Wintnesses away
“Reminds me of the “Give Blood” stickers folk back in Britain put by the front door, to keep Jeohvah Wintnesses away ”
My mom would just tell them they we were into close nude family relationships, never heard a f’ing peep out of them again.
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