One more West Seattle Crime Watch reader report tonight – an attempted strong-arm robbery. Jacqueline sent this note:
I wanted to let you know that I called the police and reported an incident that happened just before 8 pm this evening, 9/26/14. I stopped at the Walgreens at the corner of 35th & Morgan in West Seattle (High Point neighborhood), right across from the West Seattle Food Bank. I was stopping quickly to return a dvd rental at the Redbox. When I was getting out of my car, a man approached me and grabbed a hold of my car door handle and tried to grab my purse. I immediately screamed extremely loud, and since I still had my right side of my body partially inside of my SUV, I started beeping my horn and the man backed off, and I also swung my door open at him to try to get him away. I screamed so much and got everyone’s attention in the parking lot with the sound of my horn.
I was able to get back into my car and get the heck out of there. I pulled out onto 35th Ave SW and drove up a few blocks and called 911. Here is the description I gave the police:
-Black male
-Around mid-20’s or so
-Tall and slender
-Baggy clothes
-Ball cap on, with Afro hair kind of sticking out of sides of hat
-The man seemed on some kind of drug
-He was walking back to the bushes and side of the gas station next to the Walgreens where there were a few other males lingering around.***When I called 911, the dispatcher told me to hold on because they were dispatching police right away, because she had another call come in earlier with an attempted handbag robbery at the same parking lot.
What is going on with this area!?!?! I feel like I am in East Cleveland again. I no longer feel comfortable going to this location again. This area really needs some police presence and I am trying to find out information on community meetings so that I can voice my concerns on this corner. I don’t feel it is safe to go to that Walgreens for myself or other women. I wanted to get the word out. I can’t believe I was almost robbed so close to home. There is obvious drug activity at this corner, and it needs to be addressed!
We are checking with police regarding the report of at least two attempted robberies and whether anyone was arrested. As for Jacqueline’s question about meetings – we haven’t seen an agenda lately, but the High Point Neighborhood Association had been meeting at 6 pm, second Tuesdays, at Neighborhood House’s High Point Center, and the West Seattle Crime Prevention Council will resume its meetings at 7 pm, third Tuesdays, as of October 21st, at the Southwest Precinct.
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