WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Robbery investigation

Police are investigating a robbery near Delridge/Orchard. We haven’t heard the full circumstances but the victim is reported to have been robbed of their phone just before 10 pm by a person armed with a handgun, and the robber is reported to have gotten away in a black Hyundai Sonata with a taped-up back-passenger-side window. The getaway car appeared to be accompanied by a black Kia Forte. A partial description of the robber was broadcast – black ski mask, white sweater, black jeans, black shoes. No injuries reported. If you have any information, the SPD incident # is 23-358293.

Mike December 14, 2023 (4:25 am)

That’s within shouting distance from SPD SW precinct.

HoneyBun December 14, 2023 (6:24 am)

If you have a Kia or a Hyundai, please go have a kill switch installed by your mechanic. I did, and I rest much easier knowing that my car cannot not be used in crime. My Kia isn’t even in the affected years (much older), but still I don’t want to help these little punks to have weapons (yes they are deadly weapons when operated in these ways) that they can use against my fellow upstanding citizens. Yes, I may lose a window, but they will never find my kill switch and may just get caught red-handed while they search around my car for it. Please do the right thing Kia and Hyundai owners; if not for yourselves, then for the rest of us.

Adam December 14, 2023 (9:46 am)

If you have a Kid, please just raise it right. This message has been brought to you by a sane person.

937 December 14, 2023 (12:30 pm)

How about this: Don’t have a kid if you CAN’T raise him or her right- Similar sane person

Derek December 14, 2023 (12:32 pm)

Dear Police: please set up a sting operation to bust these punks. Buy a few Kia’s, put them out on the streets with trackers, and bust these kids!

Also Derek December 15, 2023 (2:18 pm)

No, please do not waste money entrapping poor people
- Byron James December 15, 2023 (5:27 pm)
  
  The vast majority of people know that the vast majority of poor people aren’t car thieves. What a strange mindset to think that they are.
- flimflam December 16, 2023 (8:35 am)
  
  Wow, so you are saying that poor people are criminals? That’s not nice, or true, for that matter.

Alaska resident December 14, 2023 (10:51 pm)

Someone tried to block my car at 39th sw and sw oregon just now – drove around them because it’s late at night and so many of these things happening here recently.

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