8:26 AM: The (corrected) Shell station at 4580 Fauntleroy Way SW was held up early today, according to a police summary:
At 2:20 a.m., patrol officers responded to reports of a robbery in the 4500 block of Fauntleroy Way Southwest. There, police determined that four masked men, driving a stolen Hyundai Sonata, robbed a gas station clerk at gunpoint, stealing between $500-600 cash. The suspects fled the scene in the car before officers arrived. Police searched the area, but they could not find the suspects, and no arrests were made. Officers collected evidence and processed the scene. The clerk did not report any injuries.
Anyone with information is asked to call the violent crimes tip line at 206-233-5000.
Incident Number: 2026-59491
In archived police-radio audio, the car was described further only as “dark” and the robbers were described further only as “wearing dark clothing.”
5:41 PM: Turns out a second armed robbery happened minutes later – called in at 2:23 am – likely the same robbers, at the California/Erskine 7-11. Thanks to commenter MercyMoi for pointing this out; we listened back to audio archives, and the radio traffic was co-mingled with radio traffic on the Shell station holdup, and SPD has not posted a summary yet about this one, but the robbers – also described only as masked, in dark clothing – were last seen “southbound on California.”
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