Man threatened self with fake gun and was taken into custody, Duluth MN
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, police responded to a man inside a residence who threatened to harm himself with a fake gun. The man surrendered without incident and was taken into custody near East Village View Drive and North Lake Avenue in Duluth, Minnesota.
Audio|Heard on: St. Louis MN Law Dispatch Group Calls
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04:9
Transcript:
00:00
Three six five.
00:04
Radio, happy phone contact and get the males.
00:07
Tell them about 0520.
00:10
Hannah, how many people do you have over there on your side of the avenue?
00:14
We got two people in the avenue and then Michaela's down along the road.
00:20
Yeah, we got an arrest team of three that are on this side.
00:23
If he does end up coming out and giving up, we can move in from this side with our team of three.
00:29
Yeah, you guys hold there.
00:31
We'll direct them to the avenue and take him in custody here.
00:35
Don't worry.
00:38
Yeah, he just told me he was gonna kill himself and then hung up on me.
00:43
He did say he was laying in bed if we want to talk to mom and get a location for that.
00:49
PA announcements are almost too quiet to hear.
00:55
Thirty-five to twenty-two or twenty-one.
01:00
Twenty-two.
01:04
If you are able, you want to make your way over the avenue so we can talk some strategies with mom.
01:14
You in the alley? I'm on the avenue now.
01:19
Yeah, she's in the car on that one.
01:23
Two seven to the nines, where do you want us to set up when we get there?
01:28
Do we go Lake Avenue and West Village View on the avenue to avoid a crossfire issue so you're kind of looking up at the apartment? And 36, that's where you can go.
01:41
So you have a crossfire issue right now with 29?
01:47
Thirty-five ten, we're with multiple PA commands.
01:51
No response.
01:54
Ten four, multiple PA commands, no response at five twenty-four.
01:59
Twenty-nine, are you in the alley or in West Village View? Because I don't have anyone in front of me covering the front door.
02:04
Yeah, ten four.
02:05
I think we're like city corner from you.
02:07
We are facing the door,
02:09
facing southwest,
02:11
angled in the alley above you.
02:14
Okay, we'll have to stay put just because this front door is only covered by us right now.
02:22
Ten four.
02:24
If he comes out, we can kind of negotiate ourselves to the left.
02:29
We got a bunch of parked cars back here, so the only way we actually have view of the door is being at the angle that we're at.
02:36
Yeah, same here.
02:39
All right, top window right above the door.
02:41
He just looked out, popped back in.
02:44
Looks like he is in the room directly above the back door.
02:50
We're working on a phone with him right now.
02:52
Mom's trying to convince him to come out.
02:55
Yeah, he's saying he wants to come out and wants to get shot.
03:06
He comes out the back door.
03:09
Spot 35 will take command.
03:14
He said he was going to come out with a fake gun and fake shoot.
03:17
So get ready with less lethal as well.
03:21
That works.
03:22
Abbott, are you going to try to deploy Taser on this if he comes out without anything in his hands?
03:28
Not inside.
03:30
Contact at the door.
03:32
All right, he's out.
03:34
Hands are empty.
03:36
Copy mail all.
03:37
Hands empty.
03:38
Five twenty-seven.
03:41
22 seconds. Male's out.
03:42
He's following commands at this point or at the rear of the address.
03:47
10-4.
03:49
Michaela, watch crossfire.
03:50
We got him up here.
03:52
10-4 . Taking one into custody.
04:01
I'll be taking one into custody at 529.
04:06
29, you want to come back to us so we'll clear the residence here for DB?
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Location mentioned:
E Vlg Vw Dr & N Lake Ave, Duluth, MN 55806
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