RC45
10-29-2004, 09:17 AM
http://www.komotv.com/stories/33709.htm
This is too funny - in a sick sorta way... ;)
SEATTLE - Seattle and University of Washington police had their hands full Thursday morning between a home invasion, carjacking, and eventually having to fish the suspect and a stolen car out of the Montlake Cut.
It all began when a couple found a man with a gun inside their home in the 6000 block of 5th Avenue Northeast, just southeast of Green Lake.
A Burien firefighter was shaving when he noticed a .357 revolver coming through the bathroom door. The man demanded the homeowner's car and then took off in their Nissan Pathfinder, according to Lt. Landy Black with the Seattle Police Department.
Black says University of Washington police spotted the car and gave brief chase before losing him in traffic.
But a short time later, the suspect wrecked that car near the intersection of University Way and Pacific Avenue and fled on foot again. He then went into a UW parking garage, pulled out a gun, and carjacked a woman, a UW professor, in her tan Volvo.
It belonged to Irwin Goverman's wife. The U.W. professor had just parked inside a public garage. "She's fine. She insisted she wanted to go to work...it's too bad cause her briefcase is inside full of term papers, I hope the students have copies," says Goverman.
The suspect then drove down to the Museum of History and Industry. Along the way, he ran into Tierra Small.
"I saw him in my rearview, I was like, 'What?' " she said.
She's a nanny and had a baby in backseat when the suspect pulled up behind her, then intentionally rammed into the back of her car three times.
"When he was pulling away I looked back at him like. 'What is going on?' And he was gripping his steering wheel, his eyes he just looked crazy," says Small.
At the museum's parking lot, police say he threatened several employees and parents and children of a nearby day care. Both the museum and day care went into lockdown.
Black says the suspect was spotted walking around the area -- police say they believe he was looking for a third car to steal.
"Then I noticed the revolver in his hands and I got scared and ran inside the house and locked all the doors," says Chris Lehman, a construction worker who was doing some finishing work on the outside of the daycare.
After a short while though, the man jumped back into the Volvo and drove off, but went so fast down a Montlake Alley that he went airborne over a 300-foot embankment and right into the Montlake cut.
The man managed to get out of the car and was spotted by the Seattle Harbor Patrol clinging to a nearby boat.
The took him into custody and then to the hospital for treatment of a head injury. Police did recover the gun, but it didn't have any bullets in it.
This is too funny - in a sick sorta way... ;)
SEATTLE - Seattle and University of Washington police had their hands full Thursday morning between a home invasion, carjacking, and eventually having to fish the suspect and a stolen car out of the Montlake Cut.
It all began when a couple found a man with a gun inside their home in the 6000 block of 5th Avenue Northeast, just southeast of Green Lake.
A Burien firefighter was shaving when he noticed a .357 revolver coming through the bathroom door. The man demanded the homeowner's car and then took off in their Nissan Pathfinder, according to Lt. Landy Black with the Seattle Police Department.
Black says University of Washington police spotted the car and gave brief chase before losing him in traffic.
But a short time later, the suspect wrecked that car near the intersection of University Way and Pacific Avenue and fled on foot again. He then went into a UW parking garage, pulled out a gun, and carjacked a woman, a UW professor, in her tan Volvo.
It belonged to Irwin Goverman's wife. The U.W. professor had just parked inside a public garage. "She's fine. She insisted she wanted to go to work...it's too bad cause her briefcase is inside full of term papers, I hope the students have copies," says Goverman.
The suspect then drove down to the Museum of History and Industry. Along the way, he ran into Tierra Small.
"I saw him in my rearview, I was like, 'What?' " she said.
She's a nanny and had a baby in backseat when the suspect pulled up behind her, then intentionally rammed into the back of her car three times.
"When he was pulling away I looked back at him like. 'What is going on?' And he was gripping his steering wheel, his eyes he just looked crazy," says Small.
At the museum's parking lot, police say he threatened several employees and parents and children of a nearby day care. Both the museum and day care went into lockdown.
Black says the suspect was spotted walking around the area -- police say they believe he was looking for a third car to steal.
"Then I noticed the revolver in his hands and I got scared and ran inside the house and locked all the doors," says Chris Lehman, a construction worker who was doing some finishing work on the outside of the daycare.
After a short while though, the man jumped back into the Volvo and drove off, but went so fast down a Montlake Alley that he went airborne over a 300-foot embankment and right into the Montlake cut.
The man managed to get out of the car and was spotted by the Seattle Harbor Patrol clinging to a nearby boat.
The took him into custody and then to the hospital for treatment of a head injury. Police did recover the gun, but it didn't have any bullets in it.