Armed teens rob woman in South Seattle
SEATTLE -- Police say four gun-wielding teenagers robbed a woman as she walked in South Seattle Monday morning.
The woman, who is in her 50s, was walking near South Columbian Way and 24th Place South just after 10:30 a.m. when four male teenagers approached her.
Police say one of the teens pointed a handgun at the woman and took her purse before all four took off on foot down a nearby alley. The woman was not injured.
Officers arrived on scene moments later. They searched the area but didn't find the robbers.
The robbers are described as black males in their late teens to early 20s. Three of them wore all black and one wore black pants and a black and white checkered top. The suspect with the black and white checkered top brandished the handgun, according to police.
Anyone with information about the robbers is asked to call the police.
The woman, who is in her 50s, was walking near South Columbian Way and 24th Place South just after 10:30 a.m. when four male teenagers approached her.
Police say one of the teens pointed a handgun at the woman and took her purse before all four took off on foot down a nearby alley. The woman was not injured.
Officers arrived on scene moments later. They searched the area but didn't find the robbers.
The robbers are described as black males in their late teens to early 20s. Three of them wore all black and one wore black pants and a black and white checkered top. The suspect with the black and white checkered top brandished the handgun, according to police.
Anyone with information about the robbers is asked to call the police.
But it's not a race issue. Even if the victim was white, it's not a race issue. It's just the area. It's just poor underprivileged youth trying to get by. It's just guns and gangs...\\sarcasm off//Â I couldn't keep it up. Maybe, just maybe, it IS about an area where the predominant race is African-American, where the generations have condoned and perpetuated this behavior, and the society does nothing to stop the behavior but rather glorifies the 'gangster lifestyle'. Ya think?
24th and Columbian Way. Hey SPD, did the new "predictive policing software" flag this area yet?
http://southseattle.komonews.com/news/crime/820206-beacon-hill-shooting-becomes-seattles-first-murder-2013
As you go east from Beacon Ave in this area, things go downhill, and not just geographically.  35 years ago that area was sketchy, and nothing appears to have changed.
Young kids period need to get out of their own way. You can end up dead or in jail, but where does that get you besides farther from an actual enjoyable life. People want respect, but you have to earn it and give it first, it's not a default.
This appears to have been more fully fleshed out from an earlier article. See, the world hasn't stopped turning once you post an accurate description of alleged perps.
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@HumanMonkeyRule  That should last about an hour and a half at most.