Suspect armed with knife in assault incident in Salem, Salem OR
AssaultPolice are investigating an assault involving a suspect armed with a silver kitchen knife in the area near Boone Road and Liberty Road in Salem. Officers have set up a perimeter and are using drones and canine units to track the suspect, who fled the scene. The suspect is not known to the victim.
Audio|Source: Salem Police Dispatch
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Transcript:
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543, the knife was described as a silver knife approximately 8 inches, like a kitchen knife,
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skinny.
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Heavy.
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340. We'll have county and the dog meet us at the east entrance of the complex here.
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Thank you. Back of me.
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(number withheld).
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I'm going to push you a little bit further south if you can go down to Liberty and Camela.
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I copy.
01:22
68 UAS is up.
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Copy UAS up.
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2116.
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146.
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146, 348.
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Good.
01:40
County has a second drone.
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Do you want going to send it up and if so where?
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I don't mind taking it but I kind of need to see where we're going.
01:52
If they want to set up to the west maybe over at the fire station that would work.
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Probably.
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015. Myself in 251 will be starting to track with County.
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Kirby?
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168. It's probably going to deploy their jobs.
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They can keep it under 300 feet, I'll be about 300.
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Hi, Kirby.
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3351, I switched my phone to my primary ADL.
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Can you see if it's tracking?
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It should be just west of my car.
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251, that's the permit's tracking.
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Thank you.
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566 to 522 since we're fairly certain a suspect ran to the west would you mind going mobile and roaming the neighborhood between Kuebler, Skyline, Davis, and Liberty?
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April.
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237 to 576.
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Do you want me to roam or do you have a perimeter position for me?
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Yeah, firm.
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If you can also roam just kind of north the skyline in the neighborhoods to the northwest,
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then...
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Okay.
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143. 143.
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143.
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Based off what my victim is saying the scene might be next to a purple box car located on the south entrance facing the church.
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Copy.
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If the scene is where the phone is at, we've located it just south of the complex in the parking lot.
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We'll be starting to track from there.
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I copy. You should have a phone in paper time you want this phone back.
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(number withheld), just confirming the suspect as a stranger to the victim.
04:17
A-firm, he's saying he doesn't recognize him, doesn't believe he lives here, and that the subject may have been eating.
04:27
Copy.
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1-160, track moving west from Boone near Liberty.
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Copy.
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Zero, one-60, tracking, North on Liberty from Boone.
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Copy, North on Liberty.
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10602 moving north with a 4,800 block of Liberty.
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Ready.
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Location mentioned:
Boone Rd SE & Liberty Rd S, Salem, OR 97306
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