A 17-year-old has been charged with first-degree robbery by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office after allegedly holding up a convenience store at gunpoint in Tukwila, an incident police say is linked to a series of armed robberies across Seattle.
Prosecutors said that Randolph P. Brown III entered the Allentown Superette on Feb. 22, 2025 at around 8:18 p.m., demanded money from the cashier, and implied he had a gun.
The employee later told police she saw what appeared to be the end of a firearm in Brown’s pocket as he took cash from the register.
Surveillance footage confirmed the suspect was armed.
Brown told the cashier “I’m leaving it in my pocket so nothing happens,” the employee told police.
Investigators believe Brown was involved in at least 11 other armed robberies across Seattle in the days surrounding the Tukwila incident. Detectives linked Brown to the crimes through surveillance footage, social media posts, and cell phone data placing him at or near the crime scenes, according to court documents.
Seattle Police say some of the robberies involved multiple suspects, though Brown appeared to act alone in the Tukwila case.
Charging documents also said that the suspect’s clothing, weapon, and physical description matched multiple robbery reports.
Authorities said that Brown was identified after an anonymous tip led them to his Instagram account, which reportedly featured images of him wearing the same outfit seen in surveillance footage from several of the robberies.
Brown was arrested and charged with first-degree robbery.
The case remains under investigation, and police are working to determine the role of possible accomplices.
