This morning shortly after 7:30 a.m., Bellevue Police responded to a report of an assault involving a gun at the Regent at Bellevue Way Apartments located in the 10600 block of NE 29th Street. A witness reported seeing two men arguing at that location and witnessed a suspect, who was reportedly holding a handgun, assault the victim. Responding Officers located the suspect leaving the scene in a vehicle and attempted to make a traffic stop, however the suspect fled. Officers subsequently chased the vehicle across the 520 floating bridge into Seattle. The suspect struck at least two other vehicles during the chase. Fortunately, there were no injuries as a result of those crashes. The suspect, a 36-year-old male, subsequently crashed his vehicle in the yard of a residence on Greenlake Way N. near the intersection with Ashworth Ave. N. in the Greenlake neighborhood of Seattle and was arrested following a short foot chase.
Seattle police recovered a firearm in the street near the scene of the arrest that police determined was the gun involved in the original incident. Police later determined that the gun had been reported as stolen.
A subsequent investigation revealed that the suspect had assaulted two known individuals during an argument at the apartments. The suspect, a convicted felon, was booked into the King County jail for investigation of assault first degree, assault fourth degree, eluding police, hit and run, and felon in possession of a firearm. The case will now be forwarded to the King County Prosecutor for review.
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