Police in seven jurisdictions, aided by tracking dogs and a helicopter, chased an armed man during a criminal odyssey that stretched from a Burger King in the Kent-Covington area to a quiet subdivision between Federal Way and Auburn. Only then did an unidentified man in his 20s surrender to a King County SWAT team. Late into the night, police were still trying to sort out the situation and continued to look for a possible second suspect. They were trying to determine whether the man they took into custody shortly after 1 p.m. was the same man responsible for all four carjackings and police pursuits that zigzagged from the Eastside to Seattle and back again yesterday. There's nothing to say that he didn't swap cars along the way with a second suspect.
Authorities say a second suspect was likely the van's getaway driver.
About 50 minutes after that robbery, a man with a gun walked into the 101 Deli in Renton and demanded a sales clerk's wallet and car keys. He then fled in the clerk's Taurus. Minutes later, Seattle patrol officers saw a lone suspect driving the stolen Taurus along Rainier Avenue South, and gave chase. Moments later, an armed man entered a home in the Seward Park neighborhood and demanded car keys from a resident. He then fled in the resident's black Mercedes toward Interstate 90.