The American Repossessor

The suspected robber shot last week by a police officer in Greenwood was charged Tuesday with four counts of robbery and second-degree assault after officers say he intentionally hit a manned patrol car.

Any of the current charges would be the third strike for Gerald Bernard Tracy, 36, meaning he’d get life in prison in convicted on at least one.

Tracy was fired upon four times by Seattle Police Detective James Rodgers. He “sustained several gunshot wounds to his arms,” according to court documents, but was transferred Thursday from Harborview Medical Center to King County Jail.

“When at the hospital he made numerous and repeated threats to police officers assigned to guard him,” Detective Len Carver of the Puget Sound Violent Crimes Task Force wrote in a probable-cause document.

The day he was released from jail, Tracy told a Seattle police officer on hospital guard, “I’ll kill you or at least one of you,” according to the document.

He’s being held on $1 million bail.

Tracy’s criminal history includes convictions for robbery, attempted robbery, motor vehicle theft, burglary, assault, DUI and harassment. He was wanted on a Department of Corrections escape warrant when confronted by police in Greenwood last week.

The morning of June 28, police say Tracy told a barista at Cowgirls Espresso at 13309 Greenwood Ave. N. to give him money from the register, and shattered a window with his fist after the young woman closed and locked it. The stand lost $150 in cash.

Tracy allegedly crashed his gold Chrysler in a ditch along the 12000 block of 3rd Avenue Northwest, and got a ride to a Greenwood address from a man who witnessed the crash.

A repossession man drove by the scene and recognized the car as belonging to Tracy — one he was supposed to take for North Seattle Auto Sales. He showed police Tracy’s department of licensing information.