West Seattle Crime Watch: Children report flasher in South Admiral

Three children between 8 and 15 reported being ‘flashed’ Sunday afternoon outside the home of relatives in the south Admiral area. Here’s what one of those relatives e-mailed us to report:

Yesterday, June 26th, at approximately 3:30 PM, a man exposed himself to three young children on the corner of 44th and Hanford [map]. Police were alerted and on the scene immediately. He is about 6 ft, very pale with a distinct mustache resembling two triangles and a goatee. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with white graphics and light blue jeans.

The relative says the children were very upset, and police stayed in the area quite a while. She provided the police-report number; reports are not available for days online, so we checked with Det. Mark Jamieson in the SPD media-response unit, who provided a few additional details from the report: The victims said the man walked by, exposed himself, then walked away eastbound on Hanford, at which time the victims ran into the house and called police. Officers rushed over, including one who was just a few blocks away, but could not find the man – there was a notation that he might have gotten on a Metro bus nearby. In addition to the description above, his age was estimated as between 30 and 49.

This is about a mile south of the luring attempt reported two weeks ago, in which an 11-year-old said a man tried to entice him into a car. The description in that incident has a few things in common with this one, albeit fairly common traits, but we are asking Southwest Precinct police if they have any reason to suspect a link.

6 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Children report flasher in South Admiral"

  • anony1 June 27, 2011 (4:30 pm)

    Hope they catch the sicko…

  • Anomy2 June 27, 2011 (4:39 pm)

    Lots of convicted sex offenders in the neighborhood if you check out the stats….Of course, could be anybody.

  • Lorelee June 27, 2011 (8:26 pm)

    I’m disgusted. But thank you for reporting on this.

  • ConcernedAthlete June 27, 2011 (10:23 pm)

    We must come together has a community….don’t just alert the police, alert everyone….I believe in taking the law into my own hands in some cases.

  • Westsidebaby June 28, 2011 (1:49 pm)

    I have young nieces and nephews that visit. This is good to know.

  • cms June 28, 2011 (8:17 pm)

    Cops would be wise to check offender description with sex offenders in the hood…which has more than a few creeps

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