SEATTLE, WA – A Seattle area teen called 9-1-1 after a man broke into her family’s home on August 18th. The girl was so afraid to leave the room she was barricaded in that she would not even go downstairs to meet the police when they arrived.
The 17-year-old was home alone when a man in a ski mask and wooden stick attempted to enter the house.
As officers approached the home, they could hear banging sounds coming from inside the home.
They breached the front door due to exigent circumstances and fearing for the safety the teenage girl inside the home.
Police conducted a search of the premises and eventually found the intruder, who was in the garage sitting in a vehicle. The man claimed that he was out of gas.
When police approached the man, they found hm sitting in the driver’s seat with a red, plastic gas can. However, the man did not appear to be getting ready to put it in his own car.
Officers on scene asked him to step out of the SUV and the 40-year-old man began to drink gasoline from the container.
At that point, according to the Seattle Police Department Blotter website, he was given multiple commands to step out of the vehicle and away from both the gas can and the hammer that was in his lap.
On the provided body camera footage, the man spoke indiscernibly to the police before clearly stating “I don’t want no problems.”
Once the officers started removing him from the vehicle, he can also be heard saying what sounds like “just shoot me,” before telling police, “I drank a bunch of gas.”
After he refused, an officer shattered the driver’s side window and extricated him from the front seat. He initially resisted officers but was eventually removed successfully and taken into custody. Seattle Fire was able to provide aid for the suspect at the scene prior to him being booked into the King County Jail.
The man was charged with residential burglary.
Police have not elaborated as to whether they believe that the man was in a mental health crisis at the time of the ordeal or if the man gave a reason for his decision to drink the gas.
After getting the intruder in custody, police were then able to contact the juvenile resident who appeared to be unharmed.
The 17-year-old was home alone when a man in a ski mask and wooden stick attempted to enter the house.
As officers approached the home, they could hear banging sounds coming from inside the home.
They breached the front door due to exigent circumstances and fearing for the safety the teenage girl inside the home.
Police conducted a search of the premises and eventually found the intruder, who was in the garage sitting in a vehicle. The man claimed that he was out of gas.
When police approached the man, they found hm sitting in the driver’s seat with a red, plastic gas can. However, the man did not appear to be getting ready to put it in his own car.
Officers on scene asked him to step out of the SUV and the 40-year-old man began to drink gasoline from the container.
At that point, according to the Seattle Police Department Blotter website, he was given multiple commands to step out of the vehicle and away from both the gas can and the hammer that was in his lap.
On the provided body camera footage, the man spoke indiscernibly to the police before clearly stating “I don’t want no problems.”
Once the officers started removing him from the vehicle, he can also be heard saying what sounds like “just shoot me,” before telling police, “I drank a bunch of gas.”
After he refused, an officer shattered the driver’s side window and extricated him from the front seat. He initially resisted officers but was eventually removed successfully and taken into custody. Seattle Fire was able to provide aid for the suspect at the scene prior to him being booked into the King County Jail.
The man was charged with residential burglary.
Police have not elaborated as to whether they believe that the man was in a mental health crisis at the time of the ordeal or if the man gave a reason for his decision to drink the gas.
After getting the intruder in custody, police were then able to contact the juvenile resident who appeared to be unharmed.
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