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Man threatens people and vehicles with orange object in SeattleSeattle WA

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Near Melrose Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

A man at near Melrose Avenue in Seattle was reported threatening people and vehicles by waving an orange object that looked like a gun. Officers responded and confirmed the man was still in the area brandishing the object and pretending to look through its scope.

Audio|Source: Seattle Fire / Seattle Police East / South Precincts
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Transcript:
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1740 Melrose Avenue.
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This is in progress for a person brandishing an orange item, holding it like a gun, and aiming it at vehicles.
00:10
But the caller cannot confirm if it is a gun.
00:12
1740 Melrose Avenue.
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3.0023 to start any unit to pack?
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Edward 01 and once after turning.
00:20
Receive.
00:22
Edward 1.
00:24
Edward 1.
00:25
Edward 1.
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3.0,000.
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Britschew.
00:31
Better 2-3.
00:33
Edward 2-3.
00:39
Medward 01.
00:41
Your suspect? Narchake at Dix.
00:44
Out with 5.
00:46
Make it next, please.
00:51
Just the other.
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That's that.
00:54
Okay.
00:56
Received off of property and getting a fixed drive.
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Number 0-0-1.
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2-3, I'm under control.
01:05
Number 2-3 under control.
01:08
3-0-1, your suspect is a white male, 25 to 30, 5-8, thin build, brown curly hair, black pants, black backpack.
01:16
Southside of the address.
01:21
Number 2-3, I want to be in front of the neighborhood market just to the north of Dix.
01:29
Copy.
01:32
Receive.
01:34
Is our suspect still unseen?
01:42
For the caller,
01:44
they are currently waving an object with an orange handle,
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acting like he's looking through a scope on the object.
01:51
It is currently sticking out of the backpack.
01:58
And the suspect is taking the object out again, 3001.
02:04
Copy.
02:06
001 for the caller, it sounds like you may have passed the suspect.
02:17
Zero zero one, copy.
02:23
The suspect is now standing at East Denny and Melrose Avenue.
02:31
Everyone, I'm not seeing anything.
02:34
I'm not seeing anything.
02:35
Thank you. For God, I see them.
02:45
Thank you.
02:47
See one. We're not going.
02:48
We're not going to make.
02:49
Thank you. Thank you everyone.
02:55
Sometimes the subject.
02:56
No healthy air.
02:58
Air held, Melrose and East Denny.

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Near Melrose Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
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