Man armed with rifle assaults woman and barricades in apartment, Mesa AZ
Family OffensePolice are surrounding an apartment near university and Roanoke where a shirtless man armed with an AR-15 rifle assaulted a woman. The woman has a head injury and is receiving medical care nearby. The suspect is refusing to come out, and negotiators and a drone team are on scene to resolve the situation.
Audio|Source: Mesa Police Department Red Mountain Patrol District
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Transcript:
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I'm 33.
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The unit or sorry,
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the subject (name withheld) that is attached to the call, that is going to be our subject inside the apartment.
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Copy.
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The apartment we're going to be looking at, near university and Roanoke,
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it's going to be the furthest north-west door,
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just for all units, so you understand, furthest northwest door.
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Correction, north-east, the rear door is the furthest northwest door.
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I'm trying to orient kind of an immediate action team back here on university.
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How many houses from Roanoke is it?
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Believe it should be your fifth.
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Correct five houses to the west of Roanoke.
01:00
Okay, hey, I'm going to throw a lasso on the roof, make sure we got the right one. Can you see it?
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I'm building left with that red laser.
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We're going to be on the backside here about with an I-18.
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Alright, copy up. So we got backside.
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West side, we got good visual I-18 in case anything happens here in the back side, or the left side.
01:32
Last team, are you guys good there? Hey,
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Jerry, you've got a perimeter on the west side, or I'm sorry, up on uni. What was you last team wearing?
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West team is good. We got lethal and less lethal here.
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Covered up.
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All right, so subject was last seen at the door shirtless.
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He's going to have jeans on.
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And then I said,
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A17, can you attach, run to him and attach his MBD photos? He's going to look the same as his MVD suit.
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Okay.
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I could take her for you. I'm going to send her access it.
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Yeah. Okay.
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So did I have a drone here on scene?
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41 on scene?
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Adam 332, Adam 41 has a drone. 41 has a drone.
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41 is launching now.
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All right, tip four.
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Now we got drone launching.
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Sounds like his phone is going to be outside and female's phone is going to be outside also.
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Is he supposed to be alone in there?
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Yeah, 104. Female's going to be out here with fire. She's got...
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3420, female has a small laceration to the back of her head. Descendale would hit her multiple times.
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She believes she may have fallen and got knocked out.
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So we have 420 a.m., multiple threats towards officers,
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and then while we were attempting to talk to him at the door,
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he opened the door, officer saw the buttstock of an AR-15.
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And just before we saw the rifle,
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girlfriend and friend had made statements that he did have 422.
03:55
Get 41 to a dare. You have a negotiator who just went on scene as well.
04:03
Just Canneal, who is it just gone on scene?
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What are you, Christopher, just got here?
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Christopher, can I get you up to the pickup truck here on the east side?
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This way we're going to make announcements from.
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Copy.
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All right, 7.33 units on scene. Now that we have a drone up,
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once Christopher is ready, we will start announcements from the east side here.
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Lincoln 21 to Countryman. If you haven't found a spot, I could use your rifle over here on the west side team.
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Location mentioned:
U St, Mesa, AZ 85205
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