King County Sheriff deputies arrested a 29-year-old Covington man for investigation of first-degree robbery after he reportedly crashed a speeding car at a high rate of speed and then attempted a carjacking at in the Panther Lake area.

In the Nov. 22 incident, the man brandished a silver handgun as he approached two women near their cars outside a home in the 12000 block of Southeast 210th Street, according to the Sheriff Department. He pointed a gun at the first woman and said, “Give me your car.” The woman told him the car wouldn’t start because of a bad battery.

The second woman was helping the first one jump-start the vehicle, deputies reported. The armed man ran over to the second woman and demanded that she get out of her car. She took the keys, ran into her house and called 9-1-1, deputies said.

The would-be carjacker ran away, but deputies found him walking along Southeast 212th Place near 116th Avenue Southeast.

Before the attempted carjacking, a deputy spotted a black Dodge Magnum – a full-size station wagon – at about 11:30 a.m. traveling at a high rate of speed south on 124th Avenue Southeast near Southeast 196th Street. The deputy estimated the speed at 80 miles per hour or faster. The deputy flashed his cruiser’s lights at the car, but it kept going.

The Magnum collided with another car that was legally in the intersection at 124th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 208th Street, according to deputies. Two of the three people in that car suffered injuries, but they weren’t life-threatening.

After the collision with the other car, the Magnum crashed through a fence and landed on a stump in the front yard of a home in the 12300 block of Southeast 209th Street. Witnesses saw the driver, who was alone in the car, running from the scene and carrying a handgun, the Sheriff Department reported. Deputies caught up with him after the subsequent attempted carjacking, but they didn’t find the reported gun.