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Teenage Girl Harrassed, Assaulted by MS-13 Members After Trying to Leave Gang

By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee December 9, 2009


A Ballard High School student called police last week to report that she was harassed and assaulted by gang members near her school after she tried to leave the gang.


The girl was waiting for the bus after school on December 1st, a police report says, when another girl approached her, began pulling her hair, pushed her to the ground, hit her in the face, and then fled.


Shortly after, one of the victim's friends came up to her at the bus stop and warned her that a group of men were "running around the school with a baseball bat looking for her." A police report says the members of the group are affiliated with MS-13, a Los Angeles-based Hispanic gang.


 


The girl got on a Metro bus and got off to transfer. While she was waiting for the next bus, a group of men tried to pull her into a black Honda Civic, but the girl was able to fight them off and get on another bus. That evening, the report says, the girl saw the same car slowly roll by her house in North Seattle.


The girl told officers that she recently tried to leave MS-13, but that members of the gang "were upset with her" and might be looking for revenge.

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