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• Good samaritan helps robbery victim get home: Seattle Police say a good samaritan who witnessed a driver getting knocked out by a punch and robbed in an altercation over a fender bender near Broadway Hill Park early last Monday morning, picked up the unconscious victim, drove him home, and got him into his apartment where he later came to and got himself to the hospital. According to the SPD report on the robbery investigation, police were able to piece together what happened in the 1 AM fight thanks to a note the good samaritan left in the knocked-out victim’s pocket. Interviewing the victim at Harborview where he was being treated for an injured neck, police learned only that the victim remembered getting into a small collision near Federal and Republican. “I don’t see any damage, I’m going home,” the victim remembered saying. That was the last thing he would recall. He woke up in his apartment with his phone and wallet stolen and found the note. The victim “said he found a piece of paper in his pocket with the name of a witness, XXXXX. XXXX, his phone number, and a message saying, ‘the guy who drove you home after you got knocked out,'” the SPD report reads. Police say the suspect who stole the phone also called the victim’s mother to try to get her to wire money for the return of the victim’s property. Police contacted the good samaritan and were able to learn what had gone down. The man said he was sitting in Broadway Hill Park when he noticed around ten vehicles were stopped in the middle of the E Republican. He described the altercation and said the suspect punched the victim in the face and sent him crashing to the ground where he was knocked unconscious. The man told police he was able to wake the victim “up enough to find out where he lived and get the victim back inside the car he was driving and drove him home, “parked his vehicle and was able to carry XXXX into the building and left him in his apartment with the note.” SPD is investigating.
• First Hill gunfire: Seattle Police investigated gunfire that left a bullet hole in the parking garage fence at First Hill’s Sorrento Hotel early Wednesday. Police were called to the area around 2:30 AM to the reported shooting. “The reporting party stated that they heard approximately multiple shots followed by a vehicle speeding off westbound, but it was not observed,” the SPD report reads. There were no reported injuries.
• Central District gunfire: SPD also investigated a shooting last Wednesday evening near 21st and Cherry:
  At 1819 hours, multiple calls of shots being fired and a person fleeing. Officers arrived in the area and spoke to several witnesses. They pointed out a nearby apartment building and said that one of the persons involved had run inside of the apartments. No victims were located. No damage to any cars or buildings could be located. A check of the apartment building did not reveal any victims, the occupants were either uncooperative or said they did not see anything and only heard gunshots. GVRU was notified.
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  A still from video showing the January 16th incident

  Capitol Hill Station security tackle teen suspect: A Sound Transit spokesperson tells CHS that a January 16th incident at Capitol Hill Station involving use of force by its security officers was necessary to remove “a possible sharp weapon” from a suspect who had been involved in an ongoing altercation at the Broadway and John transit facility. Video of the incident captured by an observer shows one of two responding Sound Transit security staff tackle the teen female along E John and cause her to drop the object in the midst of a dispute involving multiple male and female subjects and a small child. The officers gain control of the weapon, release the teen, and she can be seen leaving the scene with another female subject and the small child. Sound Transit says the incident began around 1:30 PM with an altercation involving the suspect and several others that slowed as Seattle Police were called and Seattle Fire was on the scene to treat one person for an injury. Sound Transit says the fighting began again as police left, necessitating the use of force. There were no immediate arrests.

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• ‘Extraordinary’ First Hill crash: A woman walked away from her wrecked Tesla in a spectacular high-speed crash Sunday night on First Hill. The Seattle Police Department reported details of the strange incident that ended with the 37-year-old driver smashing into a building in the 1100-block of University Sunday around 6 PM:
  

  Police determined that the motorist was traveling eastbound on University Street when she attempted to make a U-turn near the intersection at University and Boren Avenue. The driver accelerated back through the intersection before the light turned red. While making the U-turn she hit a parked vehicle then continued onto the sidewalk through a railing, and onto a ramp attached to an apartment building.

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