Snoqualmie police are investigating an armed robbery involving a gunshot at a gas station Monday night, followed by a carjacking and another armed robbery in Seattle.
At about 9:45 p.m. Monday night, the Snoqualmie Police Department responded to a report of an armed robbery at the Chevron gas station in the 8000 block of Douglas Avenue.
According to police, a man entered the gas station with a black semi-automatic pistol, fired a single shot into the ceiling and demanded money from the register.
After taking the money, the man fled and got into a black Toyota Camry with a red dealer license plate on the back.
No one was injured.
Shortly after midnight, the same vehicle was involved in a rollover accident on Interstate 405 in Tukwila in which the driver got out of the vehicle and carjacked the driver of a red Lexus who stopped to help.
The red Lexus was later used in another armed robbery in Seattle.
The man is described as a Hispanic or black man, 5 feet 8 inches tall and of slim build. He wore white and black shoes with red laces, long jeans, a black sweatshirt with white lettering on the chest, and a red ski mask.
The Snoqualmie Police Department is cooperating with other law enforcement in the area due to the similarity to other robberies in the past week.
