A fight at Ballard High School unfolds a student’s possible criminal involvement

12 p.m. on January 5th. 1300 block of N.W. 67th Street.
According to police reports, on Tuesday, Jan 4, a fight broke out between various young men at Ballard High School.
The following day, the Seattle Police Department received a call from the BHS Assistant Principle who reported that she had a man in her office who she believed to have been the assaulter from the previous day.
When interviewed by the police, the suspect’s story revealed much more than a petty fight between two young men.
The suspect said that he confronted another student because he believed him to have been one of the robbers of his grandmother’s house last December.
There were a total of five suspects that reportedly went inside the suspect’s grandmother’s house on the day of the December robbery. Four suspects wore masks, the other was identified and apprehended. The suspect believed the victim of the assault to have been one of the masked robbers because of rumors he had heard floating around the school.
The suspect admitted to have been present at the assault but denied assaulting the victim of the assault.
He said an onlooker egging them on to fight when the two men were facing each other in a stand off. The suspect said the victim turned to one of the onlookers and threatened him by saying, "If you hit me, you'll get shot." The onlooker then proceeded to beat the victim to the ground.
The Assistant Principle said students told school security that the onlooker who assaulted the victim was actually the suspect and that the onlooker is a known associate of suspect. The suspect denied that the onlooker was who students said he was.
The suspect admitted that he made no attempt to contact the follow up investigators and advise them of the additional suspect information.
The Assistant Principal was concerned that the continued violence and
threats of shooting would escalate and endanger people at the school, the report states. She wanted SPD advised of the new information and proceeded with an emergency expulsion of the involved students until everything is resolved.

2:30 p.m. on January 5th. 5300 block of Tallman Ave N.W.

On Wednesday afternoon, police officers were dispatched to an assault call at Swedish Hospital in Ballard. The complainant was a social worker at the hospital who contacted police on behalf of the victim.
The victim told the police that late the previous night, she had been hanging out with an acquaintance and another person at his apartment.
They were having a beer and her acquaintance was intoxicated.
Suddenly, he got mad at the victim for no reason and accused her of stealing $100, the report says.
He grabbed her hair and slammed her face into a table. He also searched her pockets for the money. He punched her in the head five or six times. She sustained a bruise and a cut to her chin, her two top-front teeth were loose, and she was bleeding from her left ear.
The third person ran out of the apartment and tried to get someone in another apartment to call police, but nobody did. When she returned to the apartment, the assaulter had left but returned later.
They all spent the night in the apartment. The next morning, the victim went to Ballard, and a friend took her to the hospital.
The victim was unable to recall the assaulter’s address or how to get there.

3 p.m. on January 4th. 6400 block Greenwood Ave N.

A landlord received a phone call from one of his tenants informing him that an unknown hispanic 20-something male had entered the building’s storage room. When confronted by the tenant, the male took off.
The landlord arrived at the storage and found that the access door had been pried open and four of the storage units had been broken into.
At the time of the report it was unknown if anything was taken.
The police officer located some finger prints. Nothing else suspicious was seen or heard.

2 a.m. on January 3rd. 9700 block of Greenwood Ave.

When the business owner arrived at his business on 9700 block of Greenwood Ave, he noticed that the front door was partially open. He stated that he was unsure exactly what was taken or how the business was broken into nut he did notice that auto parts were taken from his disabled vehicles in front of the business. Some wires and tools were taken from inside.
The outside of the business was in disarray with old vehicles and auto parts, the inside looked much the same, the police officer wrote in the report.
No usable prints were located and no evidence was located.

7:35 p.m. on January 3rd. 3600 block of Leary Way N.W.

Around 7:30 p.m. a man was riding his bike along Leary Way when he heard glass break and witnessed a man in a black knit cap, a black puffy jacket and carrying a black backpack with a
stripe crawling through a window. He called 911 on his cell phone. The building’s alarm was also tripped and ADT called in to 911. The biker watched as the suspect left the business on foot and then walk south on 2nd Ave N.W.
The building is located on a property surrounded by security fence that has barbed wire. The walk up window was destroyed. The owner of reported the damage to be approximately $500 but couldn't yet determine if anything had been stolen.
The officer helped her in securing the window for the night but couldn’t locate any fingerprints.

1 a.m. on January 2nd. 3600 block of Leary Way N.W.

Another landlord reported a break in at his rental property on Leary Way.
A new tenant to the property reported that late at night someone broke down the front door to his apartment and stayed inside overnight. Both the landlord and tenant believe that a certain male known to them is the one responsible for the break-in. Various people came knocking on the apartment’s door asking for said male saying that he has been telling everyone that is where he lives.
Dog food was left in the apartment after the suspect had taken off and it is known the man owns a pitbull
Nothing was stolen from inside the apartment during the break in and no one knew where the suspect could be found.