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Attempted Robbery In Freeway Park

News   April 20, 2010 at 9:00 am Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

A woman was “dragged” across Freeway Park as she tried to hold on to her purse during a robbery last week.

At about 4:00pm on April 12th, the victim and her companion were walking through the Washington State Convention Center when they noticed two men following them.

As the victims walked through the convention center and out in to Freeway Park, the two suspects walked up on either side of them, surrounding them.

One of the suspects grabbed the victim’s purse and attempted to rip it from her arm. The Woman was pulled to the ground and “dragged” by the suspects, the police report says, leaving her with cuts on her hands and forearms, and bruises on her shoulder.

The woman was able to hold on to her purse, and the robbers eventually fled.

A witness followed the suspects to 6th Ave, but lost sight of them. Police also did an area search but were unable to find the suspects.




  • kerrizor

    The never /do/ find the guy… unless the suspect is an idiot and A) hangs around or B) wanders back to the scene after getting a tattoo.

  • Seriously…

    If someone is looking sketching, the last place you want them to follow you is into freeway park.

  • six shooter

    Too bad Spiderman wasn’t there. He always catches the bad guys.

  • e.strange

    It almost seems like Freeway Park was designed as a place for crime to occur. No one can hear you scream over the sound of the freeway, plus it’s full of blind alleys. It’s a shame, really.

  • David Sucher

    Well in sense the Park was designed for danger: the Park was designed specifically to be un-urban — a place to get away from the city, little bit of wilderness. And so what do you think wilderness is about — besides physical beauty? wilderness is also about physical danger.

    Now in the sense that the designers didn’t mean it but in the whole world, what animal is the most dangerous one? And the Park gave plenty of secret places, isolation etc for people to do bad things.

    Freeway Park should have been designed to be convivial and social. Now a break from commercial life on thew sidewalk where you can sit and rest is a fine idea — I have no issue with parks, And in fact the impulse to bridge over I-5 to both create a park and connect two neighborhoods was a brilliant and worthwhile idea.

    The only problem — and it could still be remedied — is to eschew the idea of a wilderness park and make it a social park where there is visibility from into and out of the surrounding streets and sidewalks.