RENTON BLOTTER: Armed vigilante scares off visitors

The following information was compiled from City of Renton police reports:

Three people were picking up a friend for an evening out, when a resident told them not to loiter by threatening them with a gun Sept. 5.

The victims parked their car on the 1800 block of Grant Avenue South and were waiting for their friend, a local resident, when the man approached the car.

The victims reported him swearing, “I’m tired of this (expletive),” and “If you don’t live here, you need to leave.” He then pulled the slide to load the gun chamber.

The man was described as being in his 40s or 50s with grey and white hair and a large belly.

The victims sped off, fearing for their lives. They had seen the man at the complex before. The police brought in a few residents to be identified, but the victims didn’t identify any of them as the suspect.

Man pulls gun outside store

A man in his 20s pointed a gun at two women in an SUV, after a driver blocked their car in at a store on the 2000 block of Benson Road South.

The two girls were sitting in their car with two men in the back seat, when they saw the suspect buy a case of beer Sept. 13.

They asked the young preppy man if they could have a cigarette, which he gave them.

He then got back into the passenger side of four-door, dark green SUV. The driver pulled out of his parking stall and blocked the victims’ car, while the suspect pointed a gun for several seconds at the girls.

The two men in the victims’ car jumped out and ran away.

The officer had just come from a nearby call of gunfire, where witnesses saw a dark SUV speed away.

Homeless problem

A local church made a complaint of homeless loitering after they came across a man passed out on his back with his genitalia exposed Sept. 4.

The officer has responded multiple times to the area, even arresting the man before on the 300 block of South Third Street.

The area is often occupied by homeless who, “drink, urinate, defecate, and sleep, and loiter,” according the officer.

The church runs youth programs, and while the officer was there, five people walked by the exposed man.

The officer photographed the man, before waking him up and arresting him.

Drunk minor

Police arrested a teenager for possession of alcohol, after he watched him urinate on the Cedar River Trail Aug. 24.

The officer was responding to a report of a loud party on the 800 block of North First Street.

He found a group of about eight youths, talking loudly with heavy profanities. The officer knew the 19-year-old he arrested from past calls for service.

The teen’s backpack was full of cheap beer, and his blood alcohol concentration was .235, too high to put him in jail.

The following information was compiled from King County Sheriff’s reports:

Three unexpectedly attack man

A man was brutally beaten by people he didn’t know that he was sent to the Harborview Medical Center for treatment Aug. 18.

He was playing the Nintendo Wii with a group of about 10 people, one person whom he knew, when he was hit in the head with an aluminum baseball bat.

A struggle ensued, and three people attacked him. As he called police, he heard the suspects drive off, some in high-speed motorcycles from the 8700 block of Lawndale Avenue Southwest.

The suspects didn’t live at the Fairwood home.

When sheriff’s deputies arrived, the suspect was conscious couldn’t see from one of his eyes, because it was filled with blood.

The webbing on his hand between his pinky and ring finger was cut about a half inch deep, and his nose was cut and possibly broken.

Stolen cash machine

Someone broke into a saloon on the 18600 block of Southeast East Maple Valley Highway to steal and ATM cash machine.

A rear window that had been boarded up was broken out Aug. 17.

The machine had roughly $4,000 in it. There was no security video.