Bellevue Chess Man Standoff Ends In Tear Gas Surrender
see Timeline Of Terror and Not TerrorismThursday July 18, 2013. 52 year old unidentified man in Bellevue WA apartment invites a neighbor to a late night chess game which ends when he gets angry and starts pointing a gun at the man who flees. This started an eight-hour standoff with police and SWAT negotiation team. The man surrendered after the police tossed in flash-bang grenades and tear gas. There is no obvious motive for the man's sudden outburst.
Alternative explanation: could it be a low-level non-lethal terrorist staged incident to create publicity and provoke police?
.Updates
Unrelated 2011 standoff with attack on a plumber
http://www.bellevuereporter.com/news/122989103.html
Standoff suspect charged with burglary, assault JUNE 1, 2011
- 75-year-old Bellevue man arrested after a three-hour standoff last week has been charged with first-degree burglary and second-degree assault.
- Irving Craig Poling, 75 held on $50,000 bail and will be arraigned on June 15 in Seattle.
- Poling entered an unlocked front door ..encountered the plumber in the home and hit him in the chest with his 22-caliber handgun when the plumber tried to confront him,..threatened to shoot the plumber before leaving.
News about Bellevue Chess Standoff bing.com/news
- Tear gas takes pawn: Chess game turns into standoff with Bellevue SWAT; ... Policesay the man threatened his chess opponent with a gun about 2 a.m. Thursday.
Bellevue chess game turns into police standoff
Oregonian·3 days ago BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — What began as a chess game with a neighbor turned into an eight-hour standoff with police who made a few moves with flash-bang grenades and tear gas before an armed man surrendered Thursday at a… Chess Game Reportedly Sparks Early Morning Bellevue… Patch·3 days agoChess game ends in long standoff with Bellevue cops
seattletimes.com·3 days ago See also: More stories · Top stories Chess game escalates into armed standoff | www.kirotv.com Chess game escalates into armed standoff KIRO-TV 4 days ago A man surrendered after an 8-hour standoff in which police fired flash-bang grenades and tear gas into an apartment where an armed man was holed up in Bellevue … Bellevue chess game turns into police standoff Longview Daily News 3 days ago What began as a chess game with a neighbor turned into an eight-hour standoff with police who made a few moves with flash-bang grenades and tear gas before an armed Suspect in custody after 8-hour standoff in Bellevue | KING5.com ... www.king5.com/news/cities/bellevue/Bellevue-police-standoff... Jul 18, 2013 · Police took one man into custody after an almost eight-hour standoff in Bellevue. He was holed up in his apartment after 911 calls said he pointed a gun at ...
Police officers and a SWAT team immediately responded, setting up a perimeter and evacuating neighbors. They tried to negotiate for hours to get the man to come out and at one point used what appeared to be flash bangs and gas grenades.
"I woke up to gunshots," said Anita Mousseau, resident. "Then there was boom boom boom and there was a lady police command that said, 'Come up with your hands up, drop your gun, come out.'"
During the standoff, neighboring apartment units were evacuated. Streets around the complex were closed by police as well as the ramps from Interstate 90 to Bellevue Way. Those ramps have since re-opened.
Negotiators were able to convince the man to comply with police and officers entered the apartment and took him into custody without inciden
Bellevue Chess Man Standoff notes terrorism
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