SEATAC – A Kent woman is in serious condition after being shot on State Route 518 in SeaTac Tuesday night.

The King County Sheriff’s office says the 34-year-old woman was driving westbound on SR-518, between I-5 and SeaTac International Airport and Burien, when someone fired several shots at her car, striking her once.

At least two shots were fired from a car that drove up beside her about 10:40 p.m. She pulled off the road near the light rail station at South 154th Street and International Boulevard, where police found her. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where she was in serious condition.

Detectives had little information about the suspect but did not think the shooting was random, sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said.

The woman had no idea why someone would want to shoot her, but told police that her home in Kent had been shot up a few weeks ago, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

No arrests and no specific description of the suspect vehicle.

SOURCE:

• Seattle P-I

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SeaTac-area husband and father Nicholas Francisco is still missing, but his wife has put up a website with some more info:

Alert: Although Nicholas’s car was recovered, there is one item that is missing that, if found, could greatly help the effort to locate Nicholas: his laptop computer.

Nicholas wore his computer like a wedding ring—he took it with him everywhere and was never without it. It was not recovered when the car was. It is a Macbook Pro 15 inch glossy. The serial number is YD6217LKVWW.

If you locate this, please call 911!

• Nicholas’s car was recovered at the Heritage Condos on South 340th Street at about 10:20 a.m on Feburary 18th. If you or someone you know saw someone driving his car in that area from the 13th to the 18th please call 911 or email the webmaster of this site.
• Again there is a $15,000 reward for information leading to his location.

SEATAC – Two teenaged burglary suspects eluded authorities this afternoon after a SWAT team stormed a house and found nobody inside.

The standoff started as a burglary call around 3:30 p.m. in the 3000 block of South 146th Street in SeaTac.

A King County Sheriff’s spokesperson says three teens broke into a home, possibly unaware that there were people inside. The people inside got out.

One of the suspects ran out of the house where he was caught by sheriff’s deputies.

A SWAT team was called in and surrounded the home. Just before 5 p.m., a flash-bang grenade was fired into the home and SWAT moved in, but the suspects had already gone.

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SOURCE:

• KING-TV

SeaTac-area man Nicholas Francisco’s car was found Monday morning in Federal Way, but he has not.

Meanwhile, the reward for finding him has raised to $15,000, and this video was just released:

A missing SeaTac-area man’s car has been found in Federal Way, according to KING-TV.

Nicholas Francisco, 28, was last seen around 6 p.m. on February 13 as he was leaving work in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood.

His red 1992 Toyota Paseo hatchback was found at the Heritage Condos at 123 S. 340th Street in the Panther Lake area of Federal Way at 10:20 a.m. Monday.

Family members plan to start searching that area and hand out flyers.

Federal Way Police say, as far as they know, Francisco has no connection to the Heritage Condos.

Francisco is about six feet tall. He was last seen wearing a light-blue or off-white button-down short, a black jacket and blue jeans.

There’s a $5,000 reward in the case.

“We just need him to come home,” said Christine Francisco, wife of Nicholas Francisco, who disappeared after leaving his Queen Anne office.

“I am begging everybody, begging everybody to please, please help me find my husband because I cannot live my life without him,” she said.

Deputies also have been pinging his cell phone, but have gotten no response. Nicholas’ co-workers say his cell phone batteries were dead on his last day at work.

Just before he vanished, Nicholas called his wife and promised his 4-year-old daughter, Zea, he’d make Valentine’s Day cookies with her, but never showed.

The Franciscos also have a son, Noah, age 2 1/2, and Christine is pregnant with their third child, due in early October.

“If you can’t find him, these kids won’t have a daddy then,” Christine said in an interview, breaking into tears. “This unborn baby won’t have a daddy.”

In their last phone conversation, from Nicholas’ work phone, he told his wife that he was “signing off on something,” then planned to head home after running an errand at Costco for her.

“He told me he loved me,” she said.

Francisco’s co-workers on Friday combed the streets around Francisco’s work and retraced his route home, hoping to find some sign of the missing man.

“Literally there is no place to search,” said King County sheriff’s spokesman John Urquhart. “What we have to do is our investigative work and try to track him either through cell phone or bank records.”

“It’s not normal for him to make stops, have hangouts or go visit anyone else,” said one co-worker. “He’s a man who comes home after work.”

Christine Francisco said there has been no activity in Nicholas’ e-mail or bank account since he vanished.

Francisco stands about 6 feet tall and was last seen wearing a light blue and white button-down shirt, a plain black jacket and a pair of blue jeans.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged call 911 immediately.

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SOURCES:

• KING-TV
• KOMO Radio