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Residents were told to remain in their homes and stay inside during the long overnight search involving police officers in vehicles, on foot, and a K9 unit.
SPD says the suspect is a 58-year-old man. He was taken into custody after running and hiding from officers over the course of a two hour search starting around 10 PM:
Police from multiple precincts flooded the area to search for the suspect. Officers soon found the car in the 1100 block of 15th Avenue East, and saw the suspect get out and run in between two houses. Police contained the area and began searching for the man, who continued to run and hide on several properties. Just before midnight, officers tracked down the suspect and – after a brief negotiation – took him into custody.
King County Sheriff’s Guardian One helicopter unit was not staffed on the holiday weekend and was not available to help during the search. SPD borrowed thermal imaging equipment from Seattle Fire to help in the search, according to East Precinct radio updates.
Police said the suspect was to be booked into King County Jail on two counts of attempted homicide and one count of attempted burglary.
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Police say the suspect had been reported prowling homes on the quiet Memorial Day Weekend in the area near Volunteer Park starting before 8 PM when a resident in the 1400 block of E Ward called to report a man in a trench coat and a bucket hat walking around a neighbor’s house, peering in the windows. Police say the suspect left in a black Dodge sedan before officers arrived. An hour later, another caller reported a suspect left in a similar vehicle after entering her backyard in the 1600 block of Federal Ave E. The caller reported the vehicle had been driving up and down the block.
Ten minutes later, police said they received an alarm call for a residence in the same block. The home owner’s security system captured footage of a man in a bucket hat and a trench coat walking around the house before breaking a window with a rock. Once again, the suspect left the scene before officers arrived.
According to SPD’s report on the incident, police finally caught up with the suspect just after 10 PM when officers spotted the black Dodge sedan near 14th Ave E and E Mercer where the car was traveling in the center of the road with the hazard lights activated:
As officers were about to stop the car, the driver fired two shots at them out the driver’s side window and then drove off. Neither of the officers in the vehicle were struck.
SPD says officers found shell casings at the scene but a search for the weapon in the area of the manhunt will continue.
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Wow, thank you to the residents who reported this dangerous creep and to the SPD for their sustained efforts in catching him.
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I guess the rich people’s neighborhood has different police than the rest of us. No one shows up in the CD when you call about someone casing houses.
SPD should clean up its act (as the DOJ has told them to), and CD residents should actually cooperate with the police and share information about the predatory people who live there (and heck, most of them don’t even live there, they come up from the south end).
No one shows up in the rich people’s neighborhood when one person calls about a suspicious person either. But when a bunch of people call and then a burglar alarm goes off in the same area in the span of an hour or so, they show up. And then when the guy is dumb enough to shoot at the cops, more show up.
Nope, nobody shows up in the rich neighborhoods either despite what it sounds like in article.
And here I thought the message these past few years was that poor neighborhoods wanted *less* police, not more, insisting instead on “new, reimagined community-based solutions” in dealing with crime.