UPDATE 3: Standoff with a barricaded suspect on Delridge Way over
Fri, 07/15/2011
UPDATE 1:20 pm: SPD Det. Renee Witt clarified how the standoff ultimately ended. Apparently the suspect's mother contacted him and convinced him to meet up with her to turn himself in. Det. Witt said the suspect slipped out of the barricaded house at some point and met up with his mother. She then drove him to the Southwest Precinct. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence stemming from the confrontation with his girlfriend at Camp Long the night before.
UPDATE 9:25 am: Delridge Way open, situation over. Suspect turned himself in to officers and was taken first to the Southwest Precinct scanner traffic indicates. There were two additional people inside the residence on Delridge who finally came out after the suspect had turned himself in. Police are now interviewing everyone involved.
UPDATE 6:40 am: Scanner traffic indicates that the suspect's mother has arrived at the Southwest precinct. Since the road is closed Metro has rerouted the #120 bus on Delridge Way s.w. between s.w. Alaska St & s.w. Brandon St.
Original post:
From the SPD Blotter
On July 14th at approximately 11:38 p.m. officers responded to a campground in the 5200 block of 35th Avenue SW for a report of a domestic disturbance between a boyfriend and girlfriend. The suspect, a 20-year-old male, threatened his girlfriend with a gun. The victim was not injured and no shots were fired. The suspect fled the scene prior to the arrival of responding officers.
Officers continued to search for the suspect and information developed during the course of their investigation led them to the suspect’s residence in the 5000 block of Delridge Way SW. Officers surrounded the residence and subsequently saw the suspect through a window in the house however, the suspect refused to come outside and surrender to officers.
The SWAT team and negotiators were called to the scene and thus far negotiators have been unable to get the suspect to come outside. Three other adult males believed to be roommates of the suspect have come out and were all interviewed and released. There may be one other roommate still inside the house with the suspect.
This incident is on-going and we are trying to come to a peaceful resolution.