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Deputies search for suspects who robbed teen in Burien

Investigators with the King County Sheriff's Office want to find two men who robbed a middle school student at gunpoint as he was walking home from school Wednesday afternoon.
Jacob Omback, 13, usually doesn't walk home from St. Francis of Assisi School. He was near the 15700 block of First Avenue in Burien when two men in a red car approached him around 3 p.m. The road is busy and the men surprised the teen.
"One of them gets out of the car and I can see he has a gun. He runs toward me, yelling 'give me your backpack'," Omback said. "He's trying to yank off the backpack and then he puts the gun to my stomach so I grabbed it."

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Omback said he pointed the gun away from himself and other people as the suspect tried to take his backpack. The second suspect got out of the vehicle as the struggle continued. Then the suspect fired a shot.
"It fired off and my hands were on the barrel of the gun. When the gun went off, I was like 'oh wow this is serious'," Omback said.
Omback fears the violent robbery could have been worse if two good Samaritans didn't jump in.
Lathan Deleo and Miccah Leatualii were driving by and saw two men attack the teenager.
"We drove at them with the horn blaring to try to get them to think we were going to hit them," Deleo said.
Leatualii was the first one to get out of the car.
"When I opened my door, the first thing I (saw) was the bigger man turn around, look straight at me with the gun in his hand," he said.
The suspects immediately fled in a red vehicle with no license plates. Leatualii stayed with Omback while Deleo chased the suspects for 12 blocks before losing sight of them.
"They threw all of his stuff that was in the bag out onto the street and you could see it was school books," Deleo said.
The witnesses can't believe two men attacked a teenager over a backpack.
"You have no soul because you're taking something that doesn't belong to you and it's a child," Leatualii says, "Why would you even pick on a child?"
Omback's father, Edwin Omback, is grateful his son made it out with only a few scrapes and bruises.
"I'm just proud of him and the police were really proud of him, too," he said.
According to Omback, one suspect appeared to be in his early 20s while the other appeared to be in his 40s. Anyone with information is asked to call the King County Sheriff's Office.