From MV reader Ali
I had just parked on the side road along the east side of QFC (16th West) noonish today and was about to get out when I suddenly saw a guy running…from over near the Q Caf? & the area with the little church that faces 15th. He crossed in front of my car, keep looking behind him to see if he was being chased, ran north down the sidewalk, then turned west into the first parking lot, towards the industrial area. I’ve never seen anyone run so fast in my entire life so I took a good mental description of him. I talked to some city workers who had also seen him and I was figuring out what to do–call 911, etc., when I heard sirens. I eventually saw a police car go down the same road, so I jumped back in my car and went that way, intending to tell them the general direction the guy had gone.
By the time I got over there, there was already a blockade of a few cop cars in an intersection (17th and Thorndyke), all pointing inward like they had simultaneously converged on the guy, and he was handcuffed up against the car, resisting, and yelling…for them to get their hands off him. I told the police what I had seen so that they could corroborate that was indeed the guy who had been running. It wasn?t hard?he was dumb enough to be wearing a very distinctive-looking jacket.
They couldn’t say anything about what he had done but by the way everything appeared, it must have been pretty serious. I?ll be curious to hear what it was about?like everyone else in Magnolia, I am just so tired of the dirtbags and criminals who have ruined this neighborhood. Just within the last 3 weeks, I and three other neighbors have all had our cars prowled and windows broken?and this is only within a ONE-block area!)
This photo was sent in from another reader.? Thanks, Jerry!
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