Kent Police arrested two men for investigation of second-degree assault after they reportedly beat up a man who asked them not to litter after they threw beer cans into a Shell service station parking lot.
A witness called 911 at about 12:53 p.m. on Oct. 6 to say a man was bleeding from the head in the parking lot at 23953 104th Ave. S.E., and that two men had fled in a red minivan, according to the police report.
Witnesses said one man straddled the other man and banged his head against the pavement six or seven times.
Officers tracked down the van and the two men, a father and his son, at a business parking lot at 23914 100th Ave. S.E. The father told police his son had dropped some papers on the ground in the Shell parking lot and a white man told him to pick up his garbage and called him a racial slur. The father said he became upset about the racial slur, got out of the van and claimed the other man rushed him so he punched him in the jaw.
Several witnesses, however, told police that two black men attacked a white man and pounded his head against the ground as well as punched him and kicked him before fleeing the scene.
Paramedics transported the man to Valley Medical Center in Renton to be treated for head injuries. The injured man told officers he saw the two men throw beer cans into the parking lot and he asked them to pick up their garbage and not litter. The man said the older man then came inside the store and asked him, “You have something to say to me bro?”
A fight between the three men then started outside of the store. The father who was arrested wore a black Atlanta Falcons Michael Vick jersey. He told police the man hit him first and he simply reacted in self defense.
The wife of the injured man also was at the store. She denied her husband had made any type of racial slur toward the two men.
Reckless endangerment, racing
Officers arrested a man for illegal street racing and two counts of reckless endangerment after he reportedly raced another vehicle along the West Valley Highway with his two young nephews, ages 12 and 13, in the car.
An officer responded to a call about a large group of vehicles southbound along the West Valley Highway near South 196th Street at about 12:23 a.m. on Oct. 4, according to the police report. The area is near an industrial section of town where illegal street racing has gone on for decades.
The officer saw the cars southbound in the 21200 block of the West Valley Highway. The cars made a u-turn at South 204th Street and the officer began to follow a white Lexus and another vehicle that started to race each other in the northbound lanes of the highway at speeds much faster than the posted 50 mph speed limit.
The officer eventually pulled over the Lexus in the 19000 block of the West Valley Highway. He saw two young boys riding as passengers in the car. The man denied he was racing.
Liquor offense
Police arrested an 18-year-old man for being a minor in possession of alcohol after they found him passed out in a parking lot at about 11:55 p.m. on Oct. 4 at the Benson Village Apartments, 10820 S.E. 211th Pl.
The call initially came in as a domestic dispute between the man and his father, according to the police report.
Officers arrived to find the teen passed out on the pavement with his head and neck resting on a curb. The man said he had drunk about three 40-ounce beers. Police also found a full fifth of Canadian whiskey and a full 40-ounce bottle of Olde English beer that the man had dropped after leaving a nearby apartment.
The teen passed out in the back seat of a police vehicle on the way to the city jail. An officer noted in the report that he had previous contacts with the man, the most recent a minor in possession arrest in June.
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