Burien truck-jacking victim rammed into a light pole, injuring gun-wielding suspect
Wed, 02/22/2012
On Feb. 18 shortly after 7 p.m. Burien police responded to the call of a person with a gun on the 500 block of S. 150th St. As deputies arrived on the scene a wild scenario played out.
Here are the details from Sgt. Cindi West with the King County Sheriff's Office:
A deputy was traveling S/B on the Des Moines Memorial Dr S area checking for the suspect with the gun. As the deputy was traveling S/B on Des Moines Memorial Dr S he saw a vehicle traveling towards him at a estimated speed of about 60 mph.
He saw the front of the vehicle dip a couple of times indicating to him that the driver was braking, causing the front of the vehicle to dip. He then saw the vehicle aggressively swerve form the N/B lane of travel into the S/B lane of travel. The vehicle continued traveling towards the deputy in the S/B lane of travel. Deputy swerved into the N/B lane of travel and the truck again swerved sharply off the shoulder of the road and started traveling straight towards a light pole. The truck suddenly accelerated and collided with the light pole.
The driver of the vehicle jumped out of the truck with his hands raised and told the deputies that a guy in the back of his truck had a gun. He also told deputies that his girlfriend was still in the truck.
Deputies found the suspect in the back of the truck injured and found the victim’s girlfriend in the front of the truck. Deputies recovered a weapon at the scene and the suspect was arrested and taken by ambulance to Harborview for treatment.
The victim told deputies that he had stopped at the intersection of S 152 St and 8 AV S behind a Honda. He saw a suspect with trying to get into a Honda. Victim said he locked the doors to the truck and tried to get around the suspect but the suspect jumped in the back of the truck and started pounding on the roof and rear window of the truck yelling "faster, faster."
The victim turned around and saw that the suspect had a gun pointed directly at him. The victim said after the suspect jumped in the back of his truck with the gun he was scared for his life so he started speeding away and tried several maneuvers to get the suspect out of the truck before colliding with the pole.
The suspect is a 42-year-old male from the Burien area.