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Police respond to man threatening suicide by copJanesville WI

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Near Sherman Ave, Janesville, WI 53545

Police responded to a man at near Sherman Ave who was threatening to provoke police into shooting him. No weapons were reported on the scene. Officers surrounded the area and gathered information to handle the mental health crisis safely.

Audio|Source: Rock County Public Safety
03:10
Transcript:
00:00
36 can sit down the follow up. 104. 202, can I have other units heading on my with? Come quietly, please.
00:28
207, if you can start working that way. 7, Kathy. 203 units, 33 are normal. 202. The other units come in here. Just come quietly and kind of just surround the address. Park somewhere where they can't see your vehicle.
00:56
What do you think you have going on? 202. The RP is the one that told me that the husband here, (name withheld), is one to do suicide by cops, but no guns or anything like that. So you're getting the avenue for that. Then I would say just don't make any contact with them at this point until we figure out.
01:24
A little more work going on. We're not going to enforce any type of thing with him. 104 is what I'm doing. I walk the heartbeat on the road and we're talking to her trying to get more information. Vedge 2230, 2246, copy. 2230, I copy. 46, copy.
01:53
Hang off on a side street until he's figured out where he's got going. 25 to 2 or U.S. I don't. I'm on Sherman. A little bit down the past the house. 2230, can you advise what the address that I said?
02:22
Mail with me in. near Sherman Ave. Copy. Dispatch, you can you update the location? 2230, 10-4. 20-2.202. I'm in front of non-40 Sherman.
02:46
4753 we're both kind of eight. 225-10-4.

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Near Sherman Ave, Janesville, WI 53545

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