Last updated December 14, 2010 9:00 p.m. PT
The girl who was beaten and robbed in the Metro bus tunnel in January was robbed again waiting for a bus after one of those attackers and two accomplices saw her and became upset she was downtown, police say.
Alleicia E. Carson, 20, has been charged with second-degree robbery in the incident. Her arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 20 in King County Superior Court.
Police say one of the attackers from the January incident also was involved in the incident this month, which included a fight. Another girl also was involved, according to investigators. But Carson's robbery charge is the only one stemming from the incident.
About 9:30 p.m. Dec. 3, the teenage victim of the previous attack and another girl were trying to catch a bus near 3rd Avenue and Pine Street. Police say Carson approached with the two other girls -- the sister of one of the adults charged in the January case and a juvenile who pleaded guilty for second-degree assault against the victim.
At the juvenile's court sentencing last summer, she apologized to the victim and said she learned fighting isn't the answer.
In the December incident, Carson "spoke loudly so others in the area could all hear and she asked (the teen who pleaded guilty), "Isn't that the bitch you beat up in the tunnel?" according to court documents.
The victim borrowed a cell phone from her friend to call her mother. Carson and the girl who previously said fighting isn't the answer began yelling at the girls, calling them "snitches."
One asked the girl who had been beaten up in the bus tunnel earlier this year, "Why you downtown?' according to court documents.
The victim was on the phone with her mother when this was happening, saying she was being confronted by the people from the tunnel beating in January, according to police.
Both girls spit on the victim and her friend and escalated the situation into a physical confrontation while she was on the phone with her mother, according to police documents.
Carson allegedly hit the victim, causing her to drop the cell phone. Another of the suspects picked it up. The victim, thinking she had to defend herself, handed her purse and black jacket to her friend.
The three suspects then began assaulting the two girls, "pulling their hair and kicking them," Seattle Detective James Rogers wrote in a probable-cause document. The suspects have not been charged with assault.
"Numerous bystanders and probable associates of the suspects stood by and watched the incident," Rogers wrote. All but Carson allegedly fled the scene before police arrived.
Patrol officer found Carson fighting with the girls and when the parties were broken up, the victims found the purse, black jacket and cell phone were gone. The goods were worth $769, according to a police incident report.
The victim's mother, who owned the purse, drove to 3rd and Pine after the cell phone call dropped and saw one of the suspects holding the purse, according to court documents. She told police she recognized the girl from court proceedings earlier this year.
The woman's other daughter later reported seeing that same girl in the area wearing a black jacket, police said.
Carson was booked into King County Jail and released on bond the morning of Dec. 10. Police could not immediately find the other two suspects, and they have not been charged.
Seattlepi.com does not typically name suspects until they're charged as adults.
Video of the January incident is below. It gained national attention because the security guards did not intervene.
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