Suspect with knife flees fence at apartment complex, Gainesville FL


Police are searching for a suspect who fled over a fence at an apartment complex near Williston Road. The suspect is believed to be armed with a knife and wearing black clothing. Victims were moved to the front of the complex. Another individual reported a bomb threat at the police department lobby.
Audio|Source: Gainesville Police and Alachua Fire
03:13
Transcript:
00:00
And when Rusty, when I originally deployed him, he wanted to go over a fence real, real bad.
00:06
I mean, we went back on the Williston Road, so.
00:09
I think they hopped that fence right there on Williston Road in the southeast corner of the complex.
00:14
Victims currently outside of that dorm we're having them go to the front.
00:17
You're making contact with a (name withheld).
00:20
I'm going to go look around over there.
00:23
Ten-four, I mean, I went up there and like down the sidewalk, but I mean, I figured we got there.
00:28
I don't think we had anybody there right away.
00:30
So they definitely could have got somewhere from there.
00:34
Advising the suspect still has the knife.
00:36
Unable to advise where on his person.
00:38
There's two kickouts in the fence over here in the southeast.
00:42
That's just where.
00:43
That was us.
00:44
There were two other individuals that were resolved as well.
00:47
We're trying to get that 43.
00:49
Looks like the complaint that's going to be one of the employees of the location, and they're taking the victim to the front now.
00:58
Hey Rico, what's the 1012 that you're with, what's his name? (name withheld).
01:09
Yeah, 10-4[1].
01:10
Um,
01:13
do you have any residences or anything over here?
01:18
No, he lives in Sugar Hill.
01:21
They were coming here to meet somebody.
01:24
So does that signal zero come back to anything? It was (number withheld).
01:28
Can someone hop on links and see if they have any associates? They've recently been 1015 together.
01:38
Looks like that kid with a black shorts with a little green spot all over might have just walked back in that breezeway of that building we were watching earlier.
01:47
The second breezeway.
01:53
How you tell four?
01:56
Can you have the interpreter? He's on the phone with them again.
02:00
I've tried to work it through that, but there's no audio.
02:04
Can you have the interpreter call me or can I call them? So he's telling them.
02:08
I believe you can call in.
02:10
With the black shirt and the black shorts of the green specks, possibly, yeah.
02:16
I know for sure.
02:17
Black over gray was clutching his waistband when he took off from us originally.
02:24
I didn't really get a good look at the other guy.
02:27
I think it was black over black though.
02:30
Out before to echo four when you can take a phone.
02:33
Alright, we're just trying to clear in the rest of this complex here.
02:37
That's probably what we're going to have to just work on.
02:39
I mean,
02:42
one kid circled back where McKear said, if he got over the fence, I don't think we had anybody there in time.
02:51
There's still units and sweetwater clearing me until you're about to walk out of the woods from behind this fence.
02:56
That's where Lewis is calling back in consistently, still at the GPD lobby, saying he now has a bomb in the back of his head.
03:03
All right, we're,
03:05
I guess, this is the west side.
03:07
We're coming back around towards the east side towards our cars.
03:11
We're going to check this left side, then fine, real quick.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment or confirmation; message received and understood.
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