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SEATTLE, WA – St. Louis has a reputation as one of the most dangerous cities in America. A man claiming to be from the Gateway to the West told a robber that, “he is from St. Louis and was not going to be robbed.” The man was pointing a gun at him at the time. The warning and a threat of a fist fight was enough to fend off the would be robber.

A man tells Seattle police that he was on the bus last Monday at around 5:30pm when he noticed someone seated behind him wearing odd clothing. The suspect, described as a 17 or 18-year-old Somali male, was wearing a yellow bandana over his face and the hood to his jacket was pulled over his head.

The man tells police that the suspect got off first and hid in a bus shelter. The man says that when he walked past the shelter and the suspect started to follow him. He tells police that the situation felt odd. When he turned around he says the teen pulled out a black handgun, possibly a Glock, and began pointing it at him.

Police Reports Illustrated: Even with a gun, you can't rob somebody from St. Louis. http://t.co/kBRgd5rddM pic.twitter.com/2WnhxsRJko — The Stranger 🗞 (@TheStranger) May 15, 2015

That is where the police report gets interesting. This is from the actual document:

#### stated that he is from St. Louis and was not going to be robbed. The suspect was unable to say anything to #### because #### confronted him first. said, “So what are you gunna do with that big ass pistol? If you wanna rob me I ain’t got nothing. If you decide to do this we’re gunna go heads up!” #### stated that “heads up” means fighting each other fist to fist. He then stated that after he said these things to the suspect he put the gun back in the paper bag and #### began walking westbound on S Jackson St towards 12 AV S.

The two parted ways after the interaction. The man walked to his home and lost track of the suspect. His mother called police. The man gave police this account of the robbery about 5 minutes after it happened.

Seattle police say they saw the teen described by the man waiting in a bus shelter prior to the report of a robbery. Investigators are currently looking at surveillance video from the bus.

TLDR – Check out this animated version of the police report here. The cartoon contains language some viewers may find offensive.

via – St. Louis Magazine

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