{"id":905,"date":"2005-06-20T22:24:45","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T03:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=905"},"modified":"2005-06-20T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T03:25:13","slug":"police-kill-man-with-grenade-at-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"Police Kill Man With Grenade at Courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s not a very good headline — it should be made clear that the police did not use a grenade to kill a man. Well, on the bright side, there’s one less nutjob<\/a> in the Seattle area.<\/p>\n

A man carrying a hand grenade and shouting threats was shot dead by police Monday in the lobby of the federal courthouse.<\/p>\n

The grenade was inactive, but police could not see that as the man held it in his hand, Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said the man, wearing a backpack that he later strapped to his chest, tried to get past security and began shouting threats. Kerlikowske said the backpack contained a cutting board.<\/p>\n

The man “often frequented the courthouse as well as the federal building,” U.S. Marshal Eric Robertson said, adding he had a “disdain” for the federal government.<\/p>\n

The medical examiner’s office said it would not identify the man until Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In the lobby, a guard saw the man take the grenade out of his backpack, then try to walk across a ledge next to a pool that blocks public access to a secured area, Robertson said.<\/p>\n

Judges, jurors, employees and prisoners in the 23-story federal building were evacuated. Meanwhile, security officers tried talking to the man, but he refused to put the grenade down. He also carried a sheaf of papers, including some court documents and what authorities described as a living will.<\/p>\n

After about 25 minutes of negotiations with police, “the man made a furtive movement,” Robertson said. “At that point the officers had no choice but to stop that threat.”<\/p>\n

An officer with a .223-caliber rifle and another with a shotgun each fired once at the man, who fell to the floor still holding the grenade.<\/p>\n

Bomb squad members determined the grenade had been drilled out and was inactive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Luckily for the unidentified corpse, this is not grounds for disenfranchisement in the state of Washington, at least not in a gubernatorial election<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s not a very good headline — it should be made clear that the police did not use a grenade to kill a man. Well, on the bright side, there’s one less nutjob in the Seattle area. A man carrying a hand grenade and shouting threats was shot dead by police Monday in the lobby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}