Man carrying handgun and shotgun walks erratically near McDowell Rd, Mesa AZ
WeaponsPolice are monitoring a man carrying a handgun and shotgun who is walking erratically near McDowell Rd in Mesa, Arizona. Officers are preparing to contact him and have asked him to put down the weapons. The man is moving through residential areas and front yards, and a perimeter is being established to safely approach him.
Audio|Source: Mesa Police Department Superstition Patrol District
04:41
Transcript:
00:00
We're at the scene, we're going to probably make the plan to go contact him shortly.
00:06
Simple. Did he confirm if he's armed or not?
00:09
I'm sorry, say that again?
00:13
Did he say he's 422[3]?
00:17
Mike's adamant, he always carries a gun on him. He didn't disclose that to us, so we're going to assume he has a gun on him.
00:24
Okay, yeah, I haven't seen anything, but he can't place him way to stand.
00:29
He had a shotgun and a handgun and supposedly put shotgun away.
00:35
He turned around and was walking east side of westbound now.
00:43
Let's done off the towel, slowly back towards the house.
00:49
Yeah, 10-4[1], we just told him to come back and try to put the gun down.
00:57
And then probably going to Falcon, is he still walking back towards us?
01:03
Step 4. Just across the Wraud, he's at the southeast corner of the LDS church right there, still walking west now.
01:15
Anyway, you know, like that, pretty, how long they'll take him to get here?
01:22
Sorry, can I?
01:24
You know how long that is, like five minutes, ten minutes?
01:29
His pace?
01:30
On five minute walk.
01:32
It's pretty animated right now.
01:34
They're on his arms and all that.
01:37
Yeah, he's definitely 918[2] stand.
01:44
We're just going to set up an I-18 from the path that he walks, just so we can be ready to approach him when he gets here.
01:50
Madam 5.1 Falcon.
01:56
Do you think there's a better spot for us to make contact with him compared to that walk pass?
02:06
Prior to that walk pass? Yeah,
02:10
because it's just all desert and a bunch of bushes, so there's a better spot and I'd rather go there.
02:17
He's almost up to the intersection of South and then McDowell and maybe get him there.
02:26
Right now he's in front of (number withheld), he's in the house.
02:32
He's on the Cal Road, but he's still walking west. He's at the bike lane of Macau.
02:40
Yeah, he's still walking west.
02:42
He'll stretch towards the house.
02:49
Sound 46, copy, wait.
02:55
Go ahead.
02:57
Baker, David, Nora, 5221.
03:05
He ran off into some of his front yard.
03:10
It's 76,
03:11
38 east and the south.
03:13
It's pretty deserty.
03:15
He's about 100 feet until the front yard, so he'll walk the door of him.
03:24
He's going to be coming from the south.
03:31
He's up in the front yard of his house, the very large plot of land.
03:38
He's almost up to the front door.
03:45
Where is that from the Dispatch 20?
03:50
Peace of you guys.
03:56
Copy and then 10-minute 5-1-8702.
04:00
Go ahead.
04:03
Can we work on getting a few extra units so we can start maybe putting a perimeter for this guy?
04:11
I'm just thinking you guys a channel for this call.
04:14
Just not to ask me to go to hot for it.
04:21
There's a lot of trees and vehicles in here, so I can't give you directions right now, but he's at 76-38 east-pick-out.
04:36
It's on Chileans. It's traffic working at 7530th oasis. It's totally hot. Channel 4 is clear. That at 1.49.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment—message received and understood; affirmative or OK.
[2]
918: Mentally ill or disturbed person; possible mental health crisis or related emergency.
[3]
422: Criminal threats (possible)
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Location mentioned:
Near E McDowell Rd, Mesa, AZ 85207
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