The following information was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.
An elderly woman visiting from Oregon Aug. 1 was tied up, held at gunpoint and robbed by four men in masks at a home of Stevens Avenue Southwest.
The 69-year-old woman was grabbed by the men as she got out of her car at about 1:30 a.m. They tied her hands and ankles together, grabbed her from behind and held her mouth and pressed a handgun against her head.
They demanded her money and the keys to the residence. They then fled with about $600 and her drivers license.
A K9 unit couldn’t locate the robbers. The victim was treated by medics. Small red tie straps were wrapped around her ankles.
SHOT WITH BBS: A 25-year-old Renton man was shot multiple times in the back early on Aug. 2 with a BB gun, including by a man who refused repeatedly to get off the back of his car.
The victim and a friend were sitting inside his car at a gas station on Northeast Sunset Boulevard. He asked the man sitting on his car to get off; instead, the suspect asked him “why?” The victim answered: “I don’t want you sitting on my car. This isn’t a chill-out spot.”
As he attempted to push the man off his car, the victim felt rapid fire shots hitting his back.
The victim fled, but the gunfire continued, perhaps also from a second shooter. When the shooting stopped, the victim ran back to his car and the shooters ran west on Sunset. He recognized two of the men.
The officer counted eight holes in the victim’s back at Fire Station 12, which he drove to get help. He was taken to Valley Medical Center.
A K9 team from the Tukwila Police Department tracked a suspect’s scent to 800 block of Lynnwood Avenue Northeast, where one of the suspects lives.
NO JOY IN THIS RIDE: A 21-year-old Seattle man was hit in the head twice by two men at about 10:30 p.m. July 31 as he climbed into his car and who then took his keys, two phones and his car.
Two women got into the stolen car, which the victim then chased in car driven by a witness to the assault. The two suspects, along with two women, parked the car and fled on foot.
One man waved the victim’s keys in front of him as they ran off. Fingerprints were taken from the car, which was taken in the 1200 block of Bronson Way North.
LOOK A GIFT CARD IN THE MOUTH: “Tee” wanted the cash, rather than the Nordstrom and Macy gift cards he received for his birthday, so he put them up for sale on offerup.com.
A Renton woman met him at a business on South Grady Way on July 27, verified the cards and then withdrew $600 from her bank. Moments after the exchange, she got a call from Nordstrom, which indicated the gift card was being held because of a payment issue. She later found out the card wasn’t good at all.
She called the seller, who at first declined to take the calls, then eventually said she had the wrong person.
