The following was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.
A Walmart worker waiting to start her shift at about 5 a.m. April 7 rolled down her car window just two inches – far enough for a man to stick a gun through the window.
The man had asked for a lighter, but she doesn’t smoke. Then he asked her to call his mother to come pick him up. As she looked down to make the call, the man shoved the gun at her and ordered her to unlock the door.
He pulled the 50-year-old Lakewood woman from the car and got into the driver’s seat. Another man with him jumped into the passenger seat and they drove off in her 2014 Buick Verano.
She wasn’t injured and was picked up by her husband. The entire incident was captured by a Walmart security camera.
The car is equipped with OnStar, which allowed police to track it to an apartment complex in the 7000 block of South 133rd Street. There was blood on the gear shift and seat.
A short time earlier, the sheriff’s deputies had recovered another carjacked vehicle at the same complex and were responding to help Renton officers. Three suspects fled when they saw police arrive.
It’s likely the two carjackings were related to each other and to an assault at about 4:40 a.m. in which a man walking along Southwest Sunset Boulevard was robbed at gunpoint, then struck in the head with the gun.
ROBBED AT GUNPOINT: A 26-year-old man who had just moved to Renton was robbed at gunpoint April 13 of his 2014 Ford Fusion.
The victim arrived home at about 11:30 p.m. at his apartment on Terrace Avenue Southeast with movies he had just rented.
Two men approached him, looking for another apartment complex. He offered to check on his iPhone, since he was new to the area. One of the suspects pulled a handgun and pointed it at the victim’s face.
The suspect took his car keys from his pants and left in the victim’s car with another man. Officers searched unsuccessfully for the stolen car.
SHOT IN THIGH: A Renton man, who went for a walk on East Valley Road early on April 15 after arguing with his girlfriend, was shot in the thigh by an unknown assailant.
Police officer investigating reports of gunfire at about 3:30 a.m. had stopped to ask the man whether he had heard gunshots. He had, and he seemed nervous talking with officers.
An officer talking with the 33-year-old victim noticed a hole in the man’s upper jeans and blood coming through the fabric.
The victim told officers he struggled with the assailant to avoid a mugging at gunpoint and managed to take the gun. Officers couldn’t find any signs of a struggle where the spent shells were found.
Officers found the gun in the victim’s backpack; there were two live rounds in the magazine.
The handgun was reported stolen in Kent. The wounded man was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment of injuries to his thigh and groin area.