A robbery outside a Seattle grocery store has sparked a wave of disbelief – not just because of the violence described in the police report, but because of the age of the suspect.
KOMO News reporter Jackie Kent says Seattle police arrested a 12-year-old boy after investigators concluded he attacked a 43-year-old woman and tried to steal her purse near the Amazon Fresh store in the Central District.
The details, as Kent relayed from the police report, are hard to read and even harder to picture happening in a normal shopping trip. Police say the boy wore a “hot pink ski mask,” hit the woman in the face, and then poked at her face with a screwdriver, striking her left cheek…