Reward Offered In Assaults, Thefts

Secret Witness is offering a special $1,000 cash reward for information leading to the arrest of a young man involved in a series of assaults and thefts.

All the incidents occurred in Spokane on Friday, Sept. 29, before noon.

The first occurred at 8:30 a.m. as a couple on East Nebraska saw a man rummaging through their car.

The wife went to call police and the man hit her husband in the face and on the head with a broom handle. The man threatened to kill the victim with a rock and ran.

An hour later, a man fitting the same description tried to get into a car at 6000 North Division. A construction worker yelled at him, the man said it was his car, but then left.

At 10:45 a.m. a man fitting the same description was seen at a car in the parking lot of Franklin Park Mall. As the car’s owner, a 64-year old woman, approached, the man grabbed her and demanded the keys.

He choked her and struck her several times in the face, then took her keys.

An off-duty jail employee attempted to block the car with his vehicle and fired one shot in an effort to stop the man from escaping.

The man is described as black, in his late teens or early 20s. He is about 5-foot-9 and weighs between 160 and 190 pounds. He was wearing a black stocking cap.

, DataTimes