Last night about 7:45 a woman heard a knock on her front door in the 2200 block of Northeast 88th Street, just a block east of Lake City Way.
Outside she saw a man, who asked if her mother was home. “All of a sudden the front door glass was being broken out and the suspect was reaching inside to unlock the door,” the police report states.
The suspect pointed a sawed-off shotgun at the woman’s boyfriend, and another suspect appeared armed with a “crowbar-type tool,” police say. A second woman, who had been sleeping on a coach, was hit in the head with the gun butt, the report states, and the gun fired, but no one was stuck by the discharge.
The victim then ran out the door, screaming for help. Both suspects exited the trailer, chasing after the female victim. The suspects got into a parked vehicle, (a) red Honda Civic and fled the scene. The victim’s boyfriend also ran outside and was able to record the license plate, which came back as a stolen vehicle.
The woman struck with the gun was treated at Northwest Hospital. The victims stated that they did not recognize the suspects, according to police, who described them as one white male and one Hispanic male in their 30s.
