Police nab suspects after string of robberies in Shoreline

Police arrested two men suspected of robbing Shoreline
area students on Friday.

Two female Shorewood High School students were walking to
school along Linden Avenue when the men approached them
with a gun.

“Two Hispanic males come up to them and displayed what the
girls thought was a gun and demanded all of the girls’
property: their iPads, their computers, etc. So the girls,
of course, turn over all that to the suspects, and run to
the school,” says King County Sheriff’s Sergeant Katie
Larson.

Not long afterward, another student was robbed.

“He’s walking to Shoreline Community College along the
same street when our two suspects approach him and they
put what this victim described as a taser to his stomach
and demand his property,” says Sgt. Larson.

This time, though, the robbers didn’t take the victim’s
cell phone and he was able to call 911. The student
identified the men who had robbed him and alerted the King
County Sheriff.

“They didn’t ask for his cell phone. So he’s on the phone
with us right away. We had officers in that area within
seconds,” says Sgt. Larson.

When officers arrived at the scene, they apprehended the
first suspect
after a short foot chase. However, they didn’t get the man
one with the gun.

Shorewood High School went into a lock-down while deputies
brought in police dogs to hunt down the man with the gun.

“We spotted the second suspect. Our officers were able to
get him into custody
without any problem. Of course, in his hands is a
Shorewood High School iPad,” says Larson.

The men were arrested. No students were harmed.