Man threatens to stab police dog during campus standoff, Spokane WA
AssaultA man fled on foot through a college campus and hid in the bed of a red pickup truck. Police set up a perimeter and brought a police dog. The man threatened to stab the dog and possibly another person. He was seen with a knife but later threw it out. After tense negotiations, the man surrendered peacefully.
Audio|Source: Spokane City Law Enforcement
07:36
Transcript:
00:00
I got one male running south down through the college on Sharp.
00:07
(number withheld).
00:09
Okay.
00:15
35 on what street?
00:22
He's in these college campuses on that location, Sharp in Dakota.
00:30
Lock down these apartments to the north of my car on my map.
00:35
He's running west on the south side of Sharp.
00:40
I have him on the drill.
00:43
He's running east now.
00:47
Park west now.
00:53
Let's just lock this parking lot down right here.
00:57
He just looks like he hopped in the bed of a pickup truck in the parking lot.
01:01
Let's just hold this here and get units on the south side of this parking lot.
01:05
Get K-16 over here.
01:08
Yeah, just every perimeter around the parking lot, let the dog get here.
01:14
If you're right there in your car, you're on the phone, I can hear him.
01:21
Ryan, go further to the east there and just lock this whole parking lot down.
01:28
Whoever is that car that's pointed northeast in the parking lot, he's like three cars to your east in the bed of the truck.
01:37
Copy, give us a net.
01:38
We got him. He's over by this red truck in the bed of the truck.
01:41
Let it.
01:46
34, watch crossfire.
01:52
Ron, can you see if you have anything in his hands?
01:56
Just stay cover. Let's get the dog here, folks.
01:58
Everybody stay behind cover.
01:59
Let the dog get here.
02:00
We'll work it with a dog.
02:06
The canine can come in from the east.
02:08
We've got couple cars here set up for cover.
02:11
All right, just so everyone's aware, is it this red pickup truck we're looking at?
02:18
A-Firm, red pickup truck.
02:20
I believe it's a Ford, two-toned.
02:23
Hey, firm, I can see him breathing and yelling in the back of the truck.
02:27
Okay, copy, just stay behind cover.
02:29
Dog come in from the east here, meetup, it looks like it's either Seagull or Tristan's car.
02:38
Whoever's the red-blue directly to my west in an alley come to your east.
02:48
And drones cannot clearly see his hands at all.
02:55
32 to, or 30 to 32, can you still hear him on the phone?
03:02
Hey firm, if you guys are right next to him, start making some announcements, I'll see if I can hear it.
03:12
That's him, he's yelling that he's, don't let the dog go, he will stab that bitch.
03:20
281, will you advise to you what we got going on right now?
03:25
Kevin.
03:27
Anybody have pepperball?
03:32
4.30 is making threats to stab the dog if they can play dog.
03:37
Okay.
03:41
Somebody work on getting pepper all over there.
03:42
If not, I got T-16s in my truck.
03:47
32, I have pepperball in my car.
03:50
I'm just back here with the other half.
03:53
411. I'm coming on seeing.
03:54
I've got a peppermil.
03:56
4-10. I've got one.
04:00
Hey, Lynch, can you grab me the bear cat?
04:07
430.
04:09
Good. Okay,
04:11
so for everyone in the scene to avoid a crossfire, so northwest and the units that are directly to the east of the vehicle are going to have priority fire.
04:20
We're going to move some of these vehicles from the south and the southwest here so we don't have a crossfire.
04:29
We'll just move the cops.
04:30
I think we leave the cars here for show force so he doesn't try to bail into the college campus.
04:34
The last thing I want him doing is running towards into this college.
04:41
32, I'm talking to him on the phone.
04:45
I'm telling him to throw his bag out of the car right now, and I'm trying to negotiate him to surrender peace leader.
04:57
There's something out of that car.
04:58
I can't tell what it is.
05:01
Looks like that was a fanny pack that he threw out.
05:08
He still has a knife in his pocket.
05:15
Then we need a couple more.
05:16
He gets to the east.
05:17
It's just me and Chuck.
05:22
See, I'll make my way that.
05:28
He threw his knife out.
05:32
He threw his knife out?
05:36
He's still in the bed of the truck, though.
05:40
Looks he gives a flashlight in one hand and cell phone on the other.
05:45
Segal, what he taught?
05:51
Or did I miss that? What was that?
05:54
What did he throw?
05:57
Oh, it looks like he threw a fanny pack into the knife.
06:02
32, I'm still talking to him.
06:04
He said he was throwing his fanny pack out and his knife out, so he doesn't have that on him anymore.
06:12
But you give him use of force warnings here, I'm not going to let him sit in that bit of the truck too long without putting pepperball here.
06:18
If you're getting somewhere worth them, great if not.
06:24
Hey, Fabian, are you set up with that team?
06:30
Myself and Molina actually got a little closer on the other side of the wall,
06:34
so that's a direct line straight to him.
06:37
So we're probably about 30 feet off the back of the truck.
06:44
32, I gave him use the fourth warnings, and I'm trying to direct him to put his hands on his head and stand up in the bed and then follow your guys' directions.
06:57
He's in this car to our right from the K-9.
07:05
Cars are empty.
07:11
He said he's trying to keep one hand on his head, one hand on the phone, and he's going to step out of the trust side.
07:20
Okay, 16, if he starts to do that, I'll take over verbal.
07:26
Just let me know when you guys take over so I can stop the other direction.
07:35
We see his hands.
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