Summary: July 5, 2013 Police were notified as shots were heard from Joel Reuter's condo. He was unemployed, and had attracted attention of police before. The area was sealed off but he was uncooperative and was shot when he started shooting at police. The gunman had posted a anti-Obama poster on his door, warning that the president would die if anyone entered the room. He had been exhibiting recent signs of mental illness and strange behavior. SPD said its Crisis Intervention team that handles mental illness issues was “very aware of” the suspect due to recent interactions.
Timeline Of Not Neccesarily Terrorirm
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A man said to have a history of mental illness holds a phone
Youtube video on rights
"family secret" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLIok5Cy2Ig
.Topics
- bipolar
- cancer
- child abuse
- condo
- friends People didn't just want to hang out with Joel, they moved to Seattle to hang out with Joel. Duncan and Joel went to college together in Tucson, and when one of Duncan's college friends was having a rough time in Tucson, "Joel bought him a plane ticket to Seattle and let him sleep on his couch until he found a job," Duncan says
- guns
- second amendment
- sexual identity "He said, 'All gay men know the phrase 'Are you a friend of Dorothy?' And I thought, 'Joel just told me that he's gay.'
- tech job
- youtube
.Timeline
July 17, 2013
On July 5th, 28-year-old Capitol Hill resident Joel Reuter was shot and killed by police, ending an eight-hour standoff. In the wake of the shooting, the …On July 5th, 28-year-old Capitol Hill resident Joel Reuter was shot and killed by police, ending an eight-hour standoff. In the wake of the shooting, the man’s friends told CHS about Reuter’s battle with mental illness. This week, the Stranger talks with the people who knew Reuter about his life and what happened to the friend they loved:Death of a Regular
Joel Reuter used to drink at Montana, a black-lacquered, lovingly graffitied Capitol Hill bar with lots of regulars and cheap cocktails on tap. His apartment was only a few blocks away. Most mornings, Joel would wake up and walk his floppy-eared toy King Charles spaniel, Telly, to meet his friends at Analog Coffee. Then he went to work at a job he loved near South Lake Union—he was a software developer. Then after work, he and Telly (who was named after the Radiohead song “Planet Telex”) would wander down to the dark and cozy Montana for happy hour. Joel would grab a seat at the bar, order a Moscow Mule on tap, and gently flirt with the bartender, David, until his friends arrived. He was a great listener, and jokester, but rather private about his personal life. More…
Jul 17, 2013 · Death of a Regular - Joel Reuter Was the Greatest Guy You'll Never Get a Chance to Meet - Feature stories on Seattle News, Politics, …
On Friday, July 5, after an eight-hour standoff, Joel fired a shot at police out of his fifth-floor apartment, and they returned fire, killing him.
May 2013
In May, Joel began talking about guns. "He was really antiviolence," Julia and many others stressed. "He was totally freaked out by guns. He would never own a gun. Never."
.Sources
09. Friends mourn man who died in Denny Way standoff July 5, 2013 - 1:08 pm
Sean Munday said he became friends with Denny Way standoff suspect Joel Reuter who was shot and killed by police Friday morning when they both attended the University of Arizona. Munday said he knew the suspect for eight years.
Munday said the man had long suffered from mental and physical illness but he was not sure what triggered his friend to lash out early Friday morning.
“We were under the impression that he had a good lock down on things,” Munday said. “He just hit a boiling point.”
Munday gathered with a small group of other friends of the suspect, who were consoling each other one block away from the scene.
Seattle Police interim chief Jim Pugel said the 28-year-old Reuter was not allowed to have firearms in his possession due to court orders and that detectives are working to figure out how he acquired the Glock pistol seen by witnesses and recovered from Reuter’s residence. Reuter’s online accounts reveal a man suffering from mental illness with an interest in guns and the 2nd Amendment. Friends say he was diagnosed with cancer within the last year.
“We’re shocked and in pain,” Munday said. “He was gentle, very loving, very docile. He was a big teddy bear.”
Munday said the suspect had not been working due to his illness. He said his last job was with a Seattle tech startup.
The man had moved into the Marq within the past few months, according to neighbor Richard Oh, who told CHS he lives two units down from the suspect.
Oh, who has lived in the Marq since 2005, said that the man’s door was recently knocked down by an SPD crisis intervention team.
Oh also said the sign the man had posted on his door included a “666″ marking and warnings to the FBI and police. “Just crazy stuff,” he said.
Julie Poliak, who has also lived in the building since 2005, said she heard what sounded like a man ranting through an amplifier yesterday evening.
“It sounded like it was related to gay marriage, but I couldn’t tell if it was hate speech or not,” she said.
08. Cops kill gunman after long standoff Seattle Times
Police want to know how and where a 28-year-old mentally disturbed man obtained a handgun they say he fired toward SWAT officers on Capitol Hill.
..crisis officers had at least seven contacts with the man in the past four months. In April, he visited a software company where he used to work and asked employees there to mail a suspicious package. In May, officers served civil-commitment papers ordering him hospitalized him for a psychiatric evaluation, Pugel said.
..crisis officers had at least seven contacts with the man in the past four months. In April, he visited a software company where he used to work and asked employees there to mail a suspicious package. In May, officers served civil-commitment papers ordering him hospitalized him for a psychiatric evaluation, Pugel said.
Along with the videotape of his call to the WSP, the man wrote: “I think that if one of my fundamental rights as an American citizen had been revoked at all, I would definitely clearly remember it, or would have been sent home with an important document or something. Or at least someone would be jumping on the chance to remind me that I can’t own a gun ... So I am going to go forward assuming I’m not breaking the law if I have a gun on me.”
According to his Facebook page, the man had a long history of mental illness and had been recently diagnosed with cancer. He had worked as a software engineer for about three years, but listed his current employer as “Lucifer.”
After an hours-long dialogue with police, the man stepped out of his apartment with a weapon in his hand, and later, officers heard what sounded like a shot fired inside the unit, Jamieson said. When he appeared again and fired his gun “in the direction” of the SWAT officers, Jamieson said one officer returned fire and the man retreated inside the apartment. When he reappeared waving the gun, a second SWAT officer shot and killed him about 10:30 a.m.
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Looks like 9-11 truther right wingnut - 2nd amendmentStandoff with armed suspect locks down Bellevue/Denny area ...
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2 days ago - Police say the man began shooting at SWAT units around 10:30 AM. ... An eight hour standoff at Capitol Hill apartment building ended Friday ... suspect who is believed to be armed with a gun inside The Marq Condo building.
UPDATE: The man has been identified as Joel Reuter. He was 28 years old. Seattle Police interim chief Jim Pugel said that Reuter was not allowed to have firearms in his possession due to court orders and that detectives are working to figure out how he acquired the Glock pistol seen by witnesses and recovered from Reuter’s residence. Reuter’s online accounts reveal a man suffering from mental illness with an interest in guns and the 2nd Amendment. Friends say he was diagnosed with cancer within the last year.
Police say the man began shooting at SWAT units around 10:30 AM. SWAT returned fire, striking the man and killing him, police say. It was not clear what lead to the outbreak of gunfire as negotiations with the man continued.
Several medics were called to the scene just before 10:45 AM. Two SPD guild representatives were also summoned to the scene.
A prolonged medic response followed as police made sure the area was secure and safe. Police declined to specify the nature of the concerns but said that information gathered lead them to believe the man’s residence could present a danger to emergency responders. Members of SPD’s arson and bomb squad were called to the scene as part of the response.
People who know the suspect say he had been exhibiting recent signs of mental illness and strange behavior. SPD said its Crisis Intervention team that handles mental illness issues was “very aware of” the suspect due to recent interactions.Bystanders who said they live in the building said the gunman had been acting increasingly suspicious in recent weeks.One resident of the building said the gunman had posted a anti-Obama poster on his door, warning that the president would die if anyone entered the room.A small group of people huddled together a block away from the scene said they were friends with the gun man but would not speak about him until they had more information.Here is the preliminary report from SPD:An eight hour standoff at Capitol Hill apartment building ended Friday morning after a man, who had barricaded himself inside his apartment, opened fire and was fatally shot by Seattle police officers.Early this morning, just before 3 AM, neighbors at the apartment complex called police and reported hearing 5 gunshots on the building’s fifth floor. One caller also reported seeing an armed man inside the building’s elevator.As the chaotic situation unfolded, officers learned the armed 28-year-old man was a resident in the building who previously had a number of contacts with officers and members of the department’s Crisis Intervention Team, which works with people suffering from mental health crises.When officers approached the man’s apartment, they could hear the man watching what appeared to be a gun maintenance training video on his television, and heard what they believed was the sound of the man racking and dry-firing a gun.When officers tried to contact the man through the door, he turned the volume on his television up, drowning out officers’ voices and making it difficult to communicate with the man.Officers then began working to evacuate the building.
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