Charges: Woman fakes seizure to evade Metro bus robbery attempt She then chased the would-be bandit with a stun gun, reports say

A woman faked a seizure to escape being held hostage on a Metro bus by a man who claimed he had a gun and tried to take her wallet, charging documents say. A woman faked a seizure to escape being held hostage on a Metro bus by a man who claimed he had a gun and tried to take her wallet, charging documents say. Photo: GRANT HINDSLEY, SEATTLEPI.COM Photo: GRANT HINDSLEY, SEATTLEPI.COM Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Charges: Woman fakes seizure to evade Metro bus robbery attempt 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A woman faked a seizure to escape being held hostage on a Metro bus by a man who claimed he had a gun and tried to take her wallet, charging documents say.

Prosecutors charged 19-year-old Kyler Card-Kostelec with attempted first-degree robbery and unlawful imprisonment Monday after police connected him with the man depicted in bus surveillance footage.

The incident occurred Sept. 24, two days after being released from jail at the end of a burglary and assault case, court records show.

The woman, 23, boarded the bus at Seneca Street and Third Avenue downtown about 6:20 a.m., leaving her barista job at a hotel because she was feeling sick, wrote Detective Coulson Young of the King County Sheriff's Office. She took the E Line headed home in Shoreline and sat at a window seat, reports say.

Card-Kostelec allegedly boarded the bus at the Battery Street/Denny Way stop with a woman who later left the bus in North Seattle. He then drifted to and from various seats and borrowed a pen from another passenger, Young wrote. He grabbed a ferry schedule pamphlet, sat next to the barista and scrawled something on the paper, reports indicate.

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Card-Kostelec then tapped the woman to try to get her attention. She initially ignored him, but looked at him after he tapped a second time, according to court documents. He allegedly held up the note written on the pamphlet, reading, "I have a 38 Magnum give me your wallat (sic)." The man put his right hand in his jacket pocket, intimating he had a gun, reports say.

The woman rifled through her purse, then told Card-Kostelec she didn't have any money, Young wrote. The man replied, "OK, then I'll follow you home and you can give me your money there," the incident report says. The woman slipped on her ear buds, hoping she could ignore him, but he persisted in asking her for her address and about her living situation. She claimed she just moved and didn't remember her address, and also said she lived with her dad, who was at home and owned guns.

The woman felt trapped and believed Card-Kostelec was armed, Young wrote in his report. Even through she tried to tell him she owned nothing of value, he allegedly told her that he was going to inject her with methamphetamine and then asked her about her sexual history, while rubbing her leg and "saying more creepy things of a sexual nature to her," court records say.

The barista tried to make eye contact with other passengers, mouthing "help" and "call police" to one rider who did nothing to help her, she claimed.

Card-Kostelec reportedly kept telling her he would inject her with meth, and then take her to his friend's house to have sex with her. He also allegedly said he would make her help him rob a store. When the woman asked to see his gun, he refused, Young wrote.

Feeling held hostage, the woman did not leave the bus at her usual stop in Shoreline. As the bus continued to head north, she told Card-Kostelec that she has a medical condition that triggers seizures when she's scared. When the bus approached the Aurora Village Transit Center, she began to fake a seizure, shaking in her seat, reports say.

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Card-Kostelec allegedly put his arm around her and acted as though he was helping her and tried to make her stand up several times, but she fell to the floor and continued to shake.

The driver of the bus asked Card-Kostelec a question, which distracted him long enough for the woman to pull a stun gun from her purse and hold it against his bare left calf, according to the Sheriff's Office. He jumped away as she activated the stun gun, then realized he pulled his hand out of his jacket pocket, so he shoved in back in to continue to pretend he had a gun, reports say.

The woman charged toward Card-Kostelec with the stun gun, chasing him off the bus. However, he tried to board the bus again at the middle doors, so the woman ran to the doors and yelled at the driver to close them, according to the incident report. The driver allegedly didn't close the doors until the woman yelled that Card-Kostelec had a gun.

Card-Kostelec remained outside the bus, yelling at the driver to let him on and claiming the woman was his sister and off her medication.

The woman reportedly collapsed in a seat, sobbing and yelling at the driver, "Please, please try, he's trying to kill me!"

The woman called 911 and the driver spoke with the Metro dispatch center, while Card-Kostelec tried to pry open doors and demanded to be let back on the bus.

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Card-Kostelec reportedly finally boarded an E Line bus headed south.

Shoreline police, Metro transit offices and King County Sheriff's Office deputies arrived to take the woman's account of what happened.

Card-Kostelec's image, taken from Metro surveillance, was distributed countywide. Seattle police officers spotted him Oct. 4 near Pine Street and Third Avenue, standing in front of the 7-Eleven, reports indicate. Detective Young from the Sheriff's Office claimed he was the same person from the security footage and authorities arrested him.

Card-Kostelec reportedly denied the barista's account of events, instead saying she was flirting with him and the incident was a "misunderstanding."

He remains jailed on $250,000 bail.