Crime & Safety

2 Armed Robberies In Burien Early Friday

Police are investigating after armed robbers hit a Shell Station and a 7-Eleven within twenty minutes of each other.

BURIEN, WA - Armed robbers hit a 7-Eleven and Shell gas station early Friday morning, according to a KIRO 7 report. Four men, one armed with a handgun, robbed the 7-Eleven at 11657 Des Moines Memorial Drive shortly before 3 a.m. Twenty minutes later, three men, one of them armed with a handgun, robbed the Shell station at Southwest 128th Street and Ambaum Boulevard Southwest.

It's likely that the robberies were committed by the same suspects, according to KIRO 7. No one was injured in either incident.

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