Posted on 10/28/2021 11:53:24 AM PDT by Enlightened1
An attempt by Austin, Texas, officials to serve a search warrant and provide lawn care resulted in shots fired, an hourslong standoff, a house fire and a death, police said Wednesday.
Police officers and code enforcement officers arrived at a home at 9:16 a.m. to serve a nuisance search warrant, but could not make contact with the resident, Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon said at an evening news conference.
The warrant was left at the door and contractors for the city's code enforcement began working on the lawn. About an hour later, the resident started shooting from inside the house, Chacon said.
"And they immediately backed off. They got all of the staff that was working on the house to safety and and a SWAT call was initiated for a barricaded subject," he said.
SWAT, mental health officers and a crisis negotiator arrived on scene, but could not get the man out of the home, leading to the lockdown of a nearby elementary school and the closure of several streets.
"SWAT spent the next several hours trying to negotiate with the individual to just simply come out of the house," Chacon said.
At about 3 p.m., the resident started shooting at officers again. "And because of that immediate threat ... they made entry using a robot," Chacon said.
The robot helped officers determine that a fire had been started in the home, and was quickly spreading, he said. Officers still couldn't get the man to come out of the house as it became fully engulfed in flames.
But then the man exited through the garage with weapons in his hand. "At that time, a SWAT officer shot and struck the resident who went down with a gunshot wound," Chacon said.
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We’re code enforcement, do you want to die?
This is typical. Drug addicts robbing someplace in a stolen car are protected, but a resident with unruly grass is marked for death.
PING HOA
Sooner or later it is coming down to taking the “vaccine”. One either takes the “vaccine” or is shot in the back of the head to the cheering of the crowd by a Government Official by a 9mm. Kinda like this man. At least the profit from the sale of his house won’t line the pockets of the vultures that were cheering his death. Such as it is he died a Free Man. He did not comply. How many here will be able to say that?
Did you miss the part where he was shooting at the landscaping crew? Did you miss the part where he was shooting at the cops? Or that he set his own house on fire and came out armed? This was a "suicide by cop" by a mentally ill man.
Not Florida?
They’ll kill an American to mow a lawn, but hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants, drug smugglers, pimps and their victims cross every month and they won’t do squat. In fact they help them move in.
That's it, he committed suicide! That'll teach the sombitch to mow his lawn!
They didn’t say but it probably made it.
People that don’t take care of their property should be shot. /sarc
Don’t think for a minute, that the real estate developers with connections aren’t waiting in the wing to scoop that property up.
Forcing some old grump out of his home via constant complaints over minor code violations is a common tactic for these asshats. Waiting for the geezer to die of old age takes to long.
Just the local PD helping to put the real ‘Nazi’ into ‘HA Nazis’
Btw, that’s a great way to get rid of people who might have mental issues and or heavy stress. Just keep poking them until they react, then kill them!
The headline seems like an attempt to put blame on the City. Wow.
I wonder if one of his neighbors happens to be a purchaser of "distressed properties."
I’d like to know how many offers to buy he had received in the last 12 months and if any of those offers are connected to any of the complaints.
It was handled the same way most other cities handle public nuisance orders ... they go mow the overgrown lawn. I've seen in it happen in my community many times. The problem is that this guy shot at them.
Man, if the city wants to come and mow my lawn they're welcome to do it.
A life over a lawn??
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They tried and he didn’t respond to the mowing request. They
had a mowing company that was working on the lawn.
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Police officers and code enforcement officers arrived at a home at 9:16 a.m. to serve a nuisance search warrant, but could not make contact with the resident, Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon said at an evening news conference.
The warrant was left at the door and contractors for the city’s code enforcement began working on the lawn. About an hour later, the resident started shooting from inside the house, Chacon said.
It doesn't take a mayor's wife to do that. One single Karen on an HOA board can get that ball rolling.
They’re leaving something out...like this guy has a history of mental illness?? Cops called before?
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