An assault outside a convenience store on highway 3 Monday night left a 48-year-old woman injured, after a driver appeared to deliberately ram a car into her. That same driver may have also tried to run down a man as he was walking along highway 3.
The woman was at the Hilltop store in Poulsbo around 6:30 Monday evening with her husband. As the two returned to their car from inside the store, the woman grabbed some trash and walked to a nearby garbage can to throw it away. Video surveillance footage shows as she did, a white or silver Lexus pulled into the parking lot at a high rate of speed, lined up with the woman and drove into her hitting her from behind, forcing her into the wall where she was pinned between the car and the front wall of the store.
The car then backed away, turned around and drove out of the parking lot at a high rate of speed. The woman collapsed, unable to get up. She was treated by Poulsbo Fire Department for injuries to her legs.
KCSO deputies arrived to investigate and were soon approached by a man who reported a car, matching the description of the one that hit the woman, had veered toward him as he walked northbound along highway 3 about one mile south of the store. The man says he shouted at the driver, who then made a U-turn and drove toward him, forcing him to jump into a ditch to avoid being hit. The vehicle again drove away at a high rate of speed.
Deputies subsequently learned the driver was later suspected in a carjacking and hit and run in Pierce County. He was arrested by U.S. Army Military Police after illegally entering Joint Base Lewis McChord in the suspect vehicle.
Kitsap detectives are investigating the incidents in Poulsbo. The incidents in Pierce County are being investigated by the Washington State Patrol.
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