Spokane cops

[torpedoman]

They received a 911 call on a man who was going to commit sucide so they answered the call with 2 or 3 cars and went in firing. shot up the whole neighborhood. the guy had an airsoft pistol. gotta love the service though I've never figgured out why they would respond to a "he is gonna shoot himself" call. Except of course to save him the trouble or keep him from changing his mind.

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[JohnWayne]

lol. that's funny. Ya know, if they didn't go though, someone would complain that they wouldn't do anything.

 

[Cougfan2]

I would think a little more info is required. Post a link?

 

[wichaka]

.....went in firing. shot up the whole neighborhood.

Wow! every house got hit! ouch!

 

[easysteve]

Wow! every house got hit! ouch!

 

[wayoutwest]

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Police: Man shot by officers was armed with airsoft replica
McKay Allen | KXLY4 Reporter

Posted: 4:33 pm PST November 3, 2009Updated: 6:37 pm PST November 3, 2009

SPOKANE -- Police confirmed Tuesday that the suicidal man deputies confronted in an officer-involved shooting in Spokane Valley last week was armed with an airsoft pistol.

The gun, officers say, looked real which is why they opened fire on the man who the Spokane Police Department identified Tuesday as 27-year-old David Glidden.

A search warrant indicates that Glidden was waving the gun and pointed it at the officers at one point, prompting them to open fire and shoot him. It's just such a scenario that Spokane County Sheriff's Sergeant Dave Reagan hypothesized last year when he said, "We're gonna end up killing somebody that displays an airsoft pistol."

Last Friday Glidden, who was living in the basement of a home in the 4700 block of East Third, told his friend that he was suicidal and had a gun. His friend called 9-1-1 to alert police.

Police confirmed Tuesday that the suicidal man deputies confronted in an officer-involved shooting in Spokane Valley last week was armed with an airsoft pistol.

"Officers arrive, Glidden comes out of the house, has what appears to be a handgun and the officers fire," Spokane Police Spokesperson Jennifer DeRuwe said.

Spokane County deputies Aaron Childress and Griffin Criswell were the first responding officers at the home. When Glidden waved the pistol at them Chidress and Criswell opened fire and Glidden was shot multiple times. It wasn't until after the shooting that they realized what looked like a real handgun turned out to be an airsoft replica.

"When they executed a search warrant at the home when all was said and done, they do locate what appeared to be a handgun. it looks like a replica of a handgun, a .45 and it looks like it was an airsoft gun," DeRuwe said.

Meanwhile, the neighbor whose home was next to the one Glidden had been living in is looking for answers after his home was peppered when the deputies opened fire.

"It just doesn't make any sense to me, why he would discharge his shotgun into the side of the house," Robin Ross said.

Ross lives next door and during the shooting a shotgun blast from one of the deputies ended up going through his wall, narrowly missing hitting his young grandson who was inside at the time

Officer DeRuwe deruwe says officers certainly have to be aware of where their bullets end up but that, "the guy who comes out with a gun, threatens officers, that's my imminent threat. I have got to stop that threat before I can then react to any other dangers that are going on."

Ross says he doesn't care what happened that led to bullet holes in his wall with several people in his home but it shouldn't have happened.

David Glidden is now reportedly in serious but stable condition at Sacred Heart Medical Center. His friends say he may not walk again.

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November 3, 2009 in City
Documents: Suicidal man shot by police had pellet gun
Meghann M. Cuniff


Tags: police shootings shootings Spokane Valley Police Department suicide

A reportedly suicidal man shot by Spokane Valley police Friday was armed with a pellet gun that resembles a Colt .45 semi-automatic pistol, newly filed documents show.

David J. Glidden, 27, was shot twice in the upper body after emerging from a Spokane Valley home armed with the Airsoft pellet pistol. Officer Aaron Childress fired a handgun and Officer Griffin Criswell fired a 12-gauge shotgun at him. Some of those rounds went through the wall of a neighbor's home.

Glidden, who is in stable but serious condition at a local hospital, had just exited a home at 4727 E. Third Ave., where he'd been living for only a few days after breaking up with his girlfriend, a friend told detectives.

Glidden was home alone at the time of the shooting; he'd called a friend he met through Alcoholics Anonymous and threatened suicide, according to a search warrant filed today in Spokane County District Court.

"(Glidden) said he was ‘going to kill somebody or kill himself,'" according to the warrant.

That warrant was used to search the home, where police seized seven empty Budweiser cans, according to the document. The man told his friend he'd been drinking when he first called about 7 a.m. When the man called again about four hours later, his "attitude had changed significantly," according to the search warrant.

"He told (his friend) he had the gun in his hand and was cocking it," according to the warrant. "(His friend) could hear the sound of what he thought was a gun being cocked."

Childress was near the southwest corner of the residence, and Criswell near the southeast corner when they fired shots, according to documents.

Investigators found three spent .45-caliber shell casings and one spent shotgun shell casing. A neighbor said last week that he heard five shots and that rounds blew through a side wall of his home.

Childress and Criswell have more than 10 years of law enforcement experience, police said.