Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz is expected to hold a press conference Wednesday afternoon to address a recent string of robberies happening in South Seattle.
Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz is expected to hold a press conference Wednesday afternoon to address a recent string of robberies happening in
Chief Diaz will hold a press conference from the Seattle Police Department headquarters at 3:30 p.m., and it will be streamed live in the video player at the top of this article.Seattle police are looking for two men who tased a man during an armed robbery. According to the SPD, police started noticing an uptick in robberies beginning in June of this year. Authorities say the South Precinct area zip codes being targeted the most are 98108, 98119, 98144 and 98178., but police believe there may be more incidents that have gone unreported.
The SPD says the suspects, described as Black men in their teens, usually commit robberies in packs of three to seven people. In some reported instances, the suspects have assaulted, pistol whipped, or held their victims at gunpoint outside their homes in order to steal their belongings, or gain entry to their residences.
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