Police investigate burglary, arson at Seattle middle school
Nov 11, 2013, 8:05 AM | Updated: 8:25 am
Seattle Police detectives are investigating a early Sunday morning arson and burglary at Asa Mercer Middle School.
Around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, Seattle Fire crews responded to a fire alarm at one of the school’s portable classrooms on the 1600 block of South Columbian Way.
“When the fire department arrived they found evidence of a burglary and it was later determined that the fire was deliberately set,” said Seattle Police Detective Mark Jamieson.
SPD called detectives from the Arson/Bomb Squad (ABS) as fire crews quickly extinguished the fire.
According to Jamieson, police believe a number of computers that were inside that classroom were stolen by the suspect or suspects.
Detectives collected evidence from the scene and ABS is conducting a follow-up investigation.
