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Two men are responsible for a series of increasingly violent hold-ups at Vietnamese-owned businesses in South Seattle, police say, and investigators need the public’s help finding them.
Robbery detectives think their crime spree began Nov. 16 at Venus Seafood Restaurant on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Myrtle Street.
“Just before 9:30 p.m., one of the suspects walked into the restaurant, pulled a gun on the owner and demanded cash,” department spokesman Jonah Spagenthal-Lee
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Two men are responsible for a series of increasingly violent hold-ups at Vietnamese-owned businesses in South Seattle, police say, and investigators need the public’s help finding them.
Robbery detectives think their crime spree began Nov. 16 at Venus Seafood Restaurant on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Myrtle Street.
“Just before 9:30 p.m., one of the suspects walked into the restaurant, pulled a gun on the owner and demanded cash,” department spokesman Jonah Spagenthal-Lee said in a statement. “The suspect then fled the scene in a silver two-door Honda Civic driven by a second man. The suspects’ Civic had a sun roof, tinted side rear windows and possibly had a tinted rear window, and no front license plate.”
Police say the men struck again Nov. 18, robbing the Spring Roll House Deli on 12th Avenue and South Main Street.
“Again, the two suspects pulled guns on six women inside the business, stole cash and jewelry from the victims, and then forced them into a bathroom and told them not to call police,” Spagenthal-Lee said.
The third robbery was Nov. 22 at Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Myrtle Street. Police say the robbers forced a group of women at a hair salon into a bathroom where they zip-tied their hands and robbed them at gunpoint for cash and jewelry.
“Finally, shortly after 6 p.m. on Nov. 24, the suspects held up employees at a nail salon on Rainier Avenue South and South Findlay (Street), again forcing employees into a back room at gunpoint, where they tied them up before robbing them,” Spagenthal-Lee said.
Detectives describe the suspects as Vietnamese men in their 30s, both approximately 5-foot-7 or 5—foot-8 and about 155 pounds. Anyone with information is asked to call Seattle police robbery detectives at 206-684-5540.
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