A late-night walk just north of Morgan Junction turned into a gunpoint robbery Thursday, after two masked teens reportedly held up a pedestrian near California Avenue SW and SW Raymond, stole the victim’s phone and sped off in a gray Tesla with no license plates, according to police.
Officers talked with the victim at the scene while detectives began hunting for any surveillance video that might have caught the suspects or the distinctive getaway car on camera.
As reported by West Seattle Blog, the initial dispatch described the suspects as two Black male juveniles wearing masks and hoodies who took off heading north from the Junction. Police were reported to be interviewing the victim and documenting early leads from the call.
Robbery Mirrors Spring’s Armed Crime Wave
The incident lands amid a run of armed robberies and shots-fired calls in and around West Seattle this spring. Seattle police investigated a cluster of overnight armed robberies in April, according to KIRO. More recently, crime reports have logged multiple armed robberies and related cases across West Seattle and Burien, as covered by Westside Seattle…