Charge: Man pulls gun at Fremont apartment, makes self a sandwich

A Seattle man accused of holding acquaintances at gunpoint as he made himself a sandwich is facing felony assault charges.

King County prosecutors contend Basil Brandon Blake, 27, threatened to kill the other man as he prepared himself an early lunch at the other man's Fremont neighborhood home.

Arriving at the apartment at 9 a.m. July 26, Blake knocked on the front door of the home and told one of the two men inside he wanted something to eat, Seattle Detective Paul Takemoto told the court.

Blake was invited in and began handling the man's television remote control. Asked to stop, Takemoto said Blake became irate.

"I should kill you right now," Blake allegedly said.

With that, witnesses told police, Blake drew a pistol and placed the barrel against the man's forehead and repeated the threat.

Afraid Blake would follow through with the threat, the man told him to take whatever he wanted and leave, Takemoto said in court documents. Blake then set about making himself a sandwich, holding the two occupants at gunpoint as he did so.

"I do what I wanna do when I want," Blake allegedly told them.

One of the men told police he was afraid Blake would kill them both. Instead, Blake left after building his sandwich.

The apartment occupants called 911 shortly thereafter. Blake was arrested in the 4400 block of Green Lake Way North; police claim to have found a knife on his person but did not locate the pistol.

Asking that Blake be held on $225,000 bail, Deputy Prosecutor Samantha D. Kanner told the court that jail records show he has a lengthy arrest history in King County dating to 1996.

Blake has been charged with felony harassment and second-degree assault. He has not yet entered a plea.