A West Seattle woman heading to work early Friday morning was ambushed by three carjackers after she stopped to move a sign that had been placed on the Delridge ramp to the eastbound West Seattle Bridge, according to a friend of the victim. The attackers made off with her silver 2023 Subaru Outback, and police say the vehicle was last seen heading onto the bridge.
A Sign Used as a Trap
According to the friend's account relayed by West Seattle Blog, the sign on the ramp had apparently been placed there deliberately, functioning as a trap to get the victim out of her car. When she stepped out to move it, the three carjackers ambushed her. Archived police radio traffic described the group as unknown-race males, believed to be teenagers, wearing gaiters over their faces.
Police radio traffic indicated the group included one person armed with a gun and another armed with a knife. The carjackers then fled in the stolen Outback, bearing license plate CVV7246, driving onto the West Seattle Bridge, per the same archived radio account.
Victim Shaken But Physically Unharmed
The woman was on her way to work when the carjacking happened, her friend said. She was described as physically okay but very shaken up by the ordeal. The incident has been logged by the Seattle Police Department under incident number 26-330755, though the site reported that a formal police report was still awaited at the time of publication.
West Seattle Blog is asking anyone with information about the incident, or any sightings of the stolen Subaru, to come forward. The outlet has not yet confirmed additional details beyond what the victim's friend and the archived radio traffic provided.
Other Carjackings Reported Around the City
This is not the only carjacking reported in the area in recent months. In September, the site reported a separate carjacking in the 9400 block of Delridge Way involving a silver 2001 four-door Infiniti, with an initial police-radio description of four unknown-race males in their late teens or early 20s wearing masks, as reported by West Seattle Blog.
Older entries in the Seattle Police Department Blotter show carjackings have periodically struck the West Seattle area before, including a January 2024 case in which multiple suspects robbed a man at gunpoint of his vehicle and belongings as he arrived home. A separate blotter entry from 2022 described a group of suspects who later fired a shot while stealing a pickup truck at gunpoint in West Seattle after crashing their vehicle while fleeing police.
Elsewhere in the city, the blotter has logged other carjackings this year, including an October 2025 report of a carjacking in the 6900 block of MLK Jr. Way S, where two males armed with handguns reportedly approached a victim on foot and took his Toyota, followed minutes later by another reported carjacking near Lake Washington Boulevard S and S Adams Street. In a separate case that November, officers arrested two teens, ages 15 and 17, for an armed carjacking in North Seattle. These incidents are isolated reports from different parts of the city and do not establish a citywide pattern tied to Friday's West Seattle case.
