SEATTLE – A single mom is asking the community for help after thieves made off with her family’s only vehicle just before Halloween. 

The ghastly deed left her without wheels to take her daughter trick-or-treating.

But, perhaps the worst trick of all, the thieves also made off with her ID, laptop, and sentimental items she had stored in the trunk.  

Ashley Nygren-Yee has three jobs. During the week, she works at a Seattle funeral home. She often finds some moments of peace by walking through the graveyard. 

“I like it because it’s really peaceful. It’s a break from the city life. You get to observe the nature around you,” said Nygren-Yee. “You hear the crows, sometimes you see coyotes out here.”

For Nygren-Yee, it’s not the dead that are the problem this Halloween, but the living. 

“It’s like once I feel like I’m a step ahead, something or someone, the living knocks me back down,” she said. “The dead are absolutely not the problem.”

Early Wednesday, someone stole her Volkswagen Passat sedan as it sat parked in front of her apartment complex off of NE 125th Street in Seattle. The car is pictured below:

“I came outside my kitchen door and my car was not there, all that was left was a dry spot where my car had been,” she said.  

Ashley used the car daily to commute and take her daughter Anya to daycare.

“I’m a single mom living in Seattle, and I’m pregnant. And, it just feels like every single day I’m working hard to provide for my family,” said Nygren-Yee. 

She now has to take the bus there on an hour-long commute. With her car, it took only about 15 minutes. Additionally, besides her job at the funeral home, she also used her car to commute to work at two additional jobs at McDonald’s and for DoorDash.   

“Now I don’t even have the option to DoorDash for that extra gap for finances like food or like paying a bill that’s overdue,” Nygren-Yee said. “It’s putting me in a situation where I had plans to use my car to make more money, to pay for items that will be shut off next week. We are always like an incident away, one paycheck away from being out of a home. It makes my anxiety a little bit more.”

Her ID was also in the car along with other family documents. She said she was storing them in the vehicle after a recent break-in inside her apartment. She had planned to change the locks to her apartment, then move everything back in. But thieves got to her vehicle first. 

Pictures of her dad, holding her when she was little, also vanished, along with other sentimental items from her childhood in Hawaii. 

“My high school varsity letter from cheerleading, pictures of my grandmother who is since deceased,” said Nygren-Yee. 

She started a GoFundMe page, hoping to help dig herself out of the mess thieves left her in. 

“The dead get to rest, the living have to keep on fighting every day and that’s just what I feel like I have been doing,” she said.  

Ashley’s friend told her she spotted her stolen car in the Redmond area at around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night. When the friend tried to take a picture, the driver sped away and fled at speeds of 100 mph. If you have seen the vehicle, contact the Seattle Police Department.

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It was a cloudy and cool Halloween, and the rain unfortunately returned just in time for the trick-or-treaters. Rain continues tonight into Friday morning with more high elevation snow. 

Temperatures were cool again, with highs only reaching the low 50s. 

Temperatures were cool again, with highs only reaching the low 50s. 

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Showers will continue overnight with winds a little breezy at times. Temperatures will be in the mid to low 50s.

Showers will continue overnight with winds a little breezy at times. Temperatures will be in the mid to low 50s.

It will be a wet start to Friday with plenty of rain across western Washington. Snow will also be in the mountain passes, mainly above 4000′.

It will be a wet start to Friday with plenty of rain across Western Washington.  (FOX 13 Seattle)

The Mountain Headlines for the next several days includes snow and a Winter Weather Advisory. The Advisory remains in effect for the Cascades above 4000-5000′ through Friday evening. 

The Mountain Headlines for the next several days includes snow and a Winter Weather Advisory. 

Temperatures will be cool again on Friday, with highs only getting into the low 50s. Winds will also be a little breezy, especially in the South Sound.

Temperatures will be cool again Friday, with highs only getting into the low 50s. (FOX 13 Seattle)

Showers will be scattered through Friday evening, and spotty on Saturday and Sunday. We will see more rain to start the week with another frontal system, bringing more mountain snow and breezy winds as well. Rain breaks return from Wednesday into Thursday. 

Showers will be scattered through Friday evening, and spotty on Saturday and Sunday. (FOX 13 Seattle)

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One year after being traded from the Seattle Mariners, could third baseman Eugenio Suarez be on the move again?

According to MLBTradeRumors, Suarez is a possible candidate to be dealt this offseason. He was ranked at No. 27 on their profile of 35 players likely to be traded.

Here’s a portion of their blurb on him:

Suarez might feel like an odd candidate for this list, given his outrageous second half. He was one of baseball’s most prolific offensive performers in the season’s final three months, carrying a Herculean .312/.357/.617 batting line from July 1 through season’s end. Along the way, Suarez ripped 24 homers in just 325 plate appearances. He can still play a solid third base. His option is not at all unreasonable.

However, it’s worth looking at where things stood with Suarez prior to that second-half surge. The slugger had been acquired from the Mariners in what amounted to a salary dump. He had a hot week or two to open the season and then faceplanted over the next two months. His slump reached a low enough point in June that the D-backs would no longer commit to him in an everyday role…

Suarez has a club option for $15 million that they could exercise for the purpose of keeping him or for the purpose of dealing him away.

The 33-year-old finished the year at .256 with 30 homers and 101 RBI, almost exclusively on the strength of his final three months.

The Mariners traded him to Arizona last offseason in that salary-dump move that netted them backup catcher Seby Zavala and a promising relief prospect. The M’s had acquired Suarez before the 2022 season and he became an instant-fan favorite for his good attitude and ability to hit home runs.

Suarez had 31 homers and 87 RBI for the M’s in 2022 as they broke the drought and advanced to the playoffs. He added 22 homers and 96 RBI for the 2023 team that missed the playoffs by just one game. Trading him was billed by the front office as a way to cut down on strikeouts (he led the American League in strikeouts each of those years), but it was clearly just a way to cut his $11 million salary last offseason, another in a string of frustrating penny-pinching moves.

Suarez is a one-time All-Star who has played 11 years with the Cincinnati Reds, Mariners, Diamondbacks and Detroit Tigers.

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