A second arrest has been made in connection to a South Seattle home invasion robbery and the shooting of an elderly woman in March.
Police arrested the second suspect, a 17-year-old man, Tuesday evening after three suspects broke into a Beacon Hill home and stole the homeowner’s car. The suspects were quickly captured about a mile away from the house after a witness called 911.
According to a Seattle Police Department, the 17-year-old suspect confessed to detectives he was at the South Seattle robbery in March when the elderly woman was shot. Two other juvenile suspects involved in the Beacon Hill home invasion were booked into the Youth Services Center for burglary and auto theft.
Police arrested the first South Seattle robbery suspect, a 23-year-old man, on March 30. Detectives spotted the suspect at a gas station near the 500 block of S Dearborn Street when he was taken into custody.
On March 6, an elderly couple on Renton Avenue S. had just arrived home from the store when police say two suspects walked up and asked for directions.
The woman was shot. She was also hit in the head with a pistol by the suspects. The two teenage suspects ran off with the woman's purse with $60 inside.
A neighbor's surveillance camera captured a grainy photo of a red Kia Spectra.
A few days later, a patrol officer found the Kia parked in a parking lot on the 9400 block of Rainier Avenue South. Another surveillance camera captured footage of the suspects climbing into a late model, silver Toyota Corolla Hybrid.
One suspect is described as a light-skinned black male in his late teens, 6 feet tall, wearing a white jacket and white pants and armed with a black handgun. A second suspect is described as a light-skinned black teen, 5 feet 6 inches tall, skinny, wearing a blue jacket and dark pants. He had a mustache at the time of the attack. (It's not yet known which suspects were arrested.)
Seattle police believe a third suspect was driving the getaway car.
Anyone with information in the case is asked to contact Detective Magan at (206) 684-5540.
