Quiet day in West Seattle Crime Watch – only one reader report today, and checking the police-response map, we note the incident markers are relatively sparse. Today’s lone reader report involves a suspected casing/prowling incident this morning in what we might describe as Upper Alki – read on:
We live at the intersection of 58th and Hillcrest/Orleans and our home is currently under construction. This morning at approximately 6:30, I went out of our bottom side door to let our cat in and noticed our side gate was open. A stranger came around the back corner of our house and when loudly asked what he was doing on our property, he said he was looking for the path and staircase that led down to Beach Drive and he thought this was the location. I immediately started yelling for him to get out of our yard and off our property. I repeatedly told him this was private property and to leave immediately. As the man was exiting my backyard, I looked up the side stairs of our house and there was another person standing at top of stairs. The man that was in the yard walked through the gate and up the side stairs to the other person. They both left our property and continued north down 58th.
Description of yard intruder: Approximately 5′ 7″ with white nylon Adidas or other brand sporty sweatshirt jacket, shaved bald head, black pants or jeans, tennis shoes
Description of person at top of stairs: Not sure if male or female but medium height and build, shoulder-length dark hair
The resident did call police, as they advise you do in any case of something/someone suspicious.
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