More details are now available on this incident from a week ago: Armed man arrested at park outside QFC, Northgate mosque.
It could very easily have ended differently.
To recap, police arrested a man with two pistols after afternoon calls from the Idris Mosque, at Northeast Northgate Way and 15th Avenue Northeast, and Victory Creek Park, adjacent to QFC.
According to the full police report, responding officers spotted the suspect, at 15th Avenue and Northeast 113th Street.
Since it was reported that the arrestee was carrying a handgun, we pointed our handguns at him. Officer Boyland and I ordered the arrestee to stop and he did and turned around. We told him to drop the bat he was carrying and he did.
They ordered the man to get on his knees, and he did. But when he was ordered to lie on the ground:
The arrestee got back on his knees and he said he wasn’t getting all the way on the ground. We kept telling the arrestee to get face down on the ground and he refused to do so and he asked why we wanted him to get on the ground. I told him that he had a gun in his waistband and he then reached for it with his right hand.
Fortunately, the suspect put the gun on the ground, saying it was a pellet gun. It was, but in a jacket pocket he had a stolen .380-caliber loaded semi-automatic.
Four officers responded to the scene.
We dont let our kids play at any of those filthy heroin junky parks in Seattle. Our 12 year old sat on a bench without loking and there was a handful of used needles laying in the bench. Those junkies need to be cleaned out. How did junkies lives end up being more important than families?
Fantastic work by the Seattle Police Officers (presumably North Precinct) that responded; no shots fired and the suspect was taken into custody. Thank you for your service!
Victory Creek Park either needs more patrolling OR it needs to be closed.
It is a magnet for trouble, in particular, drug dealers and buyers.
I594 should have stopped this criminal. He didn’t go through a background check. How many of those people he traumatized had their rights infringed from the laws meant to stifle law abiding gun owners?