Police shot a man several times Tuesday morning after chasing him through Seattle’s Northgate neighborhood. The model 92 is used by the military and a few police departments, although many if not most police departments have replaced the now outdated Model 92 with Glock.40 caliber semi-autos.
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DESC spokesman Greg Jensen says that isn’t true and that employees called medics as soon as it was apparent the 47-year-old man was injured on Saturday. Officers found the suspect, ran after him, were threatened with a knife, shot him with a taser, then shot him. He ran away.
Police made contact with a suspect near the 1000 block of NE 98th Street and discovered he was carrying a knife. One officer fired several times, hitting the 25-year old suspect in the hand.
Police saw the man running west on Spring Street and two officers, following in their patrol auto, ordered the man to drop the gun, the news release said.
The incident unfolded at about 3 a.m. Tuesday after police received a 911 call about a man with a gun near the intersection of Second Avenue and Spring Street.
The 25-year-old man was taken to Harborview Medical Center with nonlife-threatening injuries. One officer can be seen yelling “drop the gun” repeatedly before and after firing.
Police are still working to identify the suspect in the North Seattle incident.
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Officers placed evidence markers at the scene where shell casings landed, and Force Investigations Detectives have taken over the investigation. The Office of Professional Accountability also responded to the scene, as the department says is standard procedure in such cases.
