16-year-old boy shot during attempted robbery
OLYMPIA, Wash. - A 16-year-old boy was shot during a struggle with an armed robbery suspect early Saturday in the parking lot of an Olympia apartment complex, police said.
Officers responded to the scene, an apartment building in the 1300 block of Fern Street SW, just after midnight after receiving a report of a fight and possible gunshots, said Laura Wohl of the Olympia Police Department.
When they arrived at the scene, police found the 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The suspected shooter, meanwhile, had been caught and detained by witnesses.
The boy was taken to St. Peter's Hospital where he is expected to make a full recovery.
An investigation found that the suspect approached a group of teenagers in the parking lot of the complex and attempted to rob them. The robber displayed a handgun and demanded the victims' belongings and their car, Wohl said.
One of the teens attempted to physically stop the suspect from taking the vehicle, which was still occupied by two teenage girls. During the struggle, the suspect fired multiple shots, one of which struck the 16-year-old in the abdomen. No one else was injured.
Some of the others were able to subdue the shooter and to hold him until police arrived
The suspect was later identified as Nicholas B. Thompson, 29, a transient from Olympia with a criminal history. He was booked into the Thurston County Jail for investigation of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault.
The investigation into the incident continues.
Officers responded to the scene, an apartment building in the 1300 block of Fern Street SW, just after midnight after receiving a report of a fight and possible gunshots, said Laura Wohl of the Olympia Police Department.
When they arrived at the scene, police found the 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The suspected shooter, meanwhile, had been caught and detained by witnesses.
The boy was taken to St. Peter's Hospital where he is expected to make a full recovery.
An investigation found that the suspect approached a group of teenagers in the parking lot of the complex and attempted to rob them. The robber displayed a handgun and demanded the victims' belongings and their car, Wohl said.
One of the teens attempted to physically stop the suspect from taking the vehicle, which was still occupied by two teenage girls. During the struggle, the suspect fired multiple shots, one of which struck the 16-year-old in the abdomen. No one else was injured.
Some of the others were able to subdue the shooter and to hold him until police arrived
The suspect was later identified as Nicholas B. Thompson, 29, a transient from Olympia with a criminal history. He was booked into the Thurston County Jail for investigation of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault.
The investigation into the incident continues.
Any chance we can see some nude pic's of this hot muscular boy?
It was at like 2am My husband had just came home from work and we were outside smoking a cigarette when we heard the gun shots and people running everywhere
Very brave and very stupid, you were lucky not to get killed young man...
 @Damian He wasn't being stupid if he was trying to save the two girls from being harmed or kidnapped. Brave...yes. Lucky...yes.
@GorgeTraveler I disagree, facing an armed man unarmed could have got him and others killed. Of curse I wasn't there, but I bet that this boy tried to be hero and/or panicked. Much better course of action is to act calm, offer the car and all the material things you have, and ask him to let the girls get out of the car. It really makes no sense to try to resist unless your life or somebody else's life is in more danger without resisting. If that was the case, I agree with you, but usually it isn't. In any case what happened to this boy was really hard, most people won't react in the best way. Something much worse happened to me once, and fortunately I reacted very well and my life and my girlfriend's were safe, we only lost a few dollars.
 @Damian  @GorgeTraveler But OTOH, the reason there are so many criminals (both free-lance and "government-sponsored") is because of exactly that attitude of "to dangerous to do anything about it." Good on the kid for standing us and doing what was, even at personal risk. If that happened more often, maybe there would be fewer criminals to worry about.
Curious on how early Saturday this was if a group of teens was hanging around, but regardless, nice save by the boy, glad to hear he's gonna be alright. And great job to the witnesses. Now the only problem now is this second degree asault charge. Really?
Brave young man, hats off to him. Now if we could only get legislators to man up and change the laws to put thugs away for the length of time they deserve...
Agree, 2nd degree assault? should be attempted murder, sick.....
I was thinking the same thing 2nd degree??? He tried to kill him???
second-degree assault.? Should be charged more than that. Sounds like a hero kid their trying to protect the 2 girls in the car. But unless you know what you're doing never try to unarm someone. It can be done relatively easily but you have to know what you're doing. Hopefully the thug gets 20 years.
 @Blindman Hopefully the thug tries to escape and is shot dead.
How, exactly, did a transient manage to get ahold of an operable pistol? Did some moron leave it unsecured, and the transient stole it?
 @Whobeke Guns are cheap on the streets. That's what happens when you have 300 million guns available for 310 million people.Â
Honestly; I'm a liberal, I generally vote liberally and support President Obama but, I don't have an ounce of sympathy for criminals. He should be locked up forever; criminal history - check. Violent crimes - check. Lock him up. I look at it this way...when a dog attacks someone, they're euthanized. Why? Because once a dog's lost its bite inhibition, it's almost certainly gone forever. This guy can't be rehabilitated.
 @windtreeman what ever happened to the 3 strikes policy. they never have held that one to term.
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 @windtreeman Do YOU want to pay the 25 to 30 thousand dollars per year (plus inflation) to keep him locked up for the rest of his miserable life? I can think of far better uses for that money. I say execute him.
the shooting victim took action when he recognized that the loss of more than a car was at stake here. Two teenage girls were in the rear of the car facing abduction and who knows what else. Young man, your actions were both noble and courageous. As for the criminal... prosecution should be for attempted murder.Â
Laws are too weak. They protect the thugs, which encourage people who are nervous and bad shots to carry weapons and kill innocent bystanders. Let's take care of these thugs in court vs. a vigilante style solution.
It's not the laws, it's the weak prosecuters and liberal defense attorneys who sway politically challenged judges.
 @SargeMcC And as I learned as a witness in a case the defense works hard to have certain evidence or testimony excluded so juries never hear it. You DO NOT get to tell the whole story as you witnessed it.Â
 @SargeMcC Right, those damn liberal defense attorneys doing their sworn duty to advocate for their clients...please. This has nothing to do with liberal or conservative anything. This is about a system that favors plea bargains over putting in the time and money to bring people to justice.Â
 @SargeMcC You're nuts. And your confused beliefs about politics are exactly why you and the rest of the haters will never figure out why you lost the election so badly.Â
 @SargeMcC You get half a LIKE here â it has nothing to do with conservative or liberal anything.Â
But I get really sick of people always parroting the BS about our Constitutional rights to a "vigorous defense."
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No, we are not entitled to some slimeball finding every little technicality, throwing out obviously untrue alternative theories as supposedly "reasonable" doubt, putting witnesses and victims through hell so they won't testify, etc.Â
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The Constitution assures us a FAIR trial and honest representation, not a sleazy, dishonest, grossly expensive Cadillac defense at the taxpayers' cost.Â
 @SargeMcC in other words... you've been watching too much TV
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 @SargeMcC Sarge... come now. There are plenty of conservative attorneys who work as defense counsel. There goal is to build a name for themselves and make a great deal of money. You are dreaming if you think it's political.Â
There is representing your client to see they get a fair trial, and then there is trying every trick in the book to try and get them off, and the longer they can drag out the trial, the more they get paid. No, that's liberalism. A conservative would pull the plug when there was clearly guilt of the crime.
"He was booked into the Thurston County Jail for investigation of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault."
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That's what a bullet to the gut warrants?
 @Getov Mylon That is the initial change the drop on him to arrest and hold him. I'm sure it'll get upgraded later. If it doesn't, then the prosecutor or the DA should get downgraded.
 @Getov Mylon When some scummy POS brags of having a 15-point plan to get his wife hooked on meth, slips meth into her cigarette without her knowledge and that is somehow not premeditated (that scum pile is only facing second-degree assault, not first-degree attempted murder), a bullet to the guts is probably no worse than a minor traffic violation.Â
 @Getov Mylon They can always up the charges.Â
 @lakeview  @Getov Mylon let's hope they do
 @Getov Mylon Here in Washington state judges and lawmakers prefer to hug a thug .... Welcome to Washington State Liberal Justice....
Alright - sounds like we've got another bright bulb that'll hopefully be up for federal gun charges. I guess those memos don't get around those circles too freely...... bummer
So lucky no one is dead. Some mistake stupidity for bravery.
 @Klondiko So... you'd just let them steel a car *with a couple of teen-age girls in the back*? I think the word for that is "coward."
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Safer? In the short-run, yes. But then you'd have to live with yourself... of course, some folks sleep like a baby after doing something like that, because they honestly don't know how they could have done any differently, they are so craven.
@Klondiko I don't think the sixteen year old can be blamed for being stupid in this case. It sounds like he was trying to save the two girls inside the vehicle that the thug was planning to steal.
What is a sixteen year old doing out after midnight?? Lord, I'm getting old if this is acceptable.
 @SargeMcC Not getting, are.
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I stayed out late on Fri/Sat nights back when I was that age, more than 30yrs ago.
 @theToucan  @SargeMcC As a teen I was out that late 50 years ago.
 @theToucan  @SargeMcC I am old and it scares the hell out of me to drive home at night(after 10;00) from work. Times are a changing , have changed.
@theToucan Maybe parents should rethink that then. Things aren't like they were thirty years ago. There has been a deep moral slide toward depravity since then.
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Actually, the US murder rate is currently around half of what it was in 1982.
Great outcome!
Would've even be better if they'd used his gun to take care of business once and for all.
"Yes, officer, even after we tackled him he got loose and tried to kill me. I had no choice but to shoot him, I was afraid for my life!"
Still, GREAT bravery on the teen's part... Not many adults who would do that.
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"He was booked into the Thurston County Jail for investigation of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault."
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What the he11? What about assult with a deadly weapon and attempted murder? Oh yeah, that'd be too harsh. Let's just give him a hug and get him to promise he will play nice next time.
 @what? Sure, why not? Having a 15-point plan to get someone hooked on meth doesn't draw first-degree charges, apparently, even after actually slipping her meth and causing a freaked out, panicked high.
I guess you need at least 16-point plan for it to be premeditated, and I'm not sure how many bullets to the gut for that to be first-degree assault.Â
 @what? Agreed.... I hope Washington State Liberal Hug a Thug doesn't prevail.........
Less than a year ago, Nicholas Thompson was arrested for armed robbery of a bank in Olympia, caught on survelliance video.  Scary that he was already out and about. Â
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http://olympia.komonews.com/news/911/703952-man-arrested-olympia-bank-robbery
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Odd that there's a mugshot with the story from LESS than a year ago, but not now. And yes, it's scary that, if indeed it is the same "suspect", this obviously unrepentant filth was set free from committing a bank robbery in LESS THAN A YEAR, to again be shambling around to threaten the lives of others.Â
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Hang 'im HIGH.
 @TheTruncheon Good catch and detective work. Shame that KOMO didn't search their own articles before you did.Â