Armed suspect barricades in apartment with hostages, Shaker Heights OH
HomicidePolice respond to an armed suspect barricaded in an apartment near Kemper Rd. The suspect is wanted for homicide and has locked himself inside with the caller's brother and his girlfriend. The suspect has threatened violence. Officers are negotiating and making preparations to safely extract the hostages and take the suspect into custody.
Audio|Source: Shaker Heights Police Dispatch
06:31
Transcript:
00:00
I'm too far ready. I do have the name of this mail. I don't know if you already said that.
00:06
A Richard Tavala.
00:10
You already look them up in leads?
00:13
I'm not finding anything.
00:21
Five seconds. Do you have a shield in your car?
00:32
Two before I have one. I'm a row.
00:35
Down for us.
00:41
25, we're going to do a shield team.
00:43
Call this guy out.
00:46
Two and four.
00:54
Unit's interoper.
00:55
The female is still on the line. She went back into the apartment to attempt to get the kids out and she's not speaking the dispatch.
01:03
She just disconnected.
01:06
All right.
01:10
5226 Radio 33.
01:12
10-4[1].
01:18
Have anybody else that can help assistance for a room early apartment?
01:22
O3 is in Ralph to John Carroll.
01:25
Five zero's in route.
01:31
You go to the address one more time?
01:38
Near Kemper Rd.
01:41
Apartment 203.
01:45
Apartment 203.
01:48
Apartment 203.
01:52
Affirm.
01:56
Okay.
01:57
Did you find that male leaves? I'm sorry.
02:00
Negative. I'm getting nothing back on that name.
02:04
Copy that.
02:07
We have no history with the female?
02:10
I don't have her name.
02:14
She would just stay in honor her.
02:21
They also have access to the front of the apartment, so we're going to be able to make entry once more cars show up.
02:27
5-9 is on the scene.
02:34
We have diagonal deployment on the 1-4 corner if the next person can go to the 2-3 once they show up if you come from Largemere.
02:49
Thank you. Just advising, I believe I have located this female in Leeds,
02:55
showing multiple marries.
02:57
Offer.
03:00
OLLI Radio, O2,
03:03
3. Penper.
03:08
Uh, zero radio sign.
03:11
Take that perimeter position.
03:14
Okay.
03:21
Oh, 659 or 56, the female that call is coming out now. She told us that he's in the back bedroom.
03:31
Hey, come out of here.
03:33
Go again?
03:36
Do we have a name for the mail?
03:41
She said it was a Richard Tavala.
03:44
I was unable to locate him anywhere.
03:47
Copy that. We have him inside. He just showed the door on us.
03:51
Ten for.
03:54
You got in the house.
03:59
No, we're in the stairwell.
04:04
Is there anybody else inside the house? We're not outside.
04:10
According to the caller, no.
04:15
I'm speaking with her now.
04:16
It's going to buy.
04:22
L6, what side of the sale?
04:29
It's going to be toward the center of the horseshoe how it connects around.
04:34
There may be additional exit or entry to the apartment from the back side or the middle of the courtyard there.
04:44
He is on Kimber Road.
04:47
Commander Grafton is on the phone with Cleveland Homicide. It is confirmed that this individual is a suspect associated with that and he's known to have at least weapons with him.
04:57
Two-five copies.
05:01
We copy inside.
05:05
He advised that he has also made statements to other people that this will end in a cemetery.
05:11
We copy it.
05:12
We get another unit inside.
05:15
There are,
05:17
the caller's brother and his girlfriend are also inside.
05:23
Confirming we have three total inside, correct?
05:27
Um,
05:29
suspect, brother, and then brother's girlfriend, three people.
05:33
Copy that.
05:35
We're going to be making a call to the sleeping party in the bedroom, the boyfriend and girlfriend.
05:46
They're going to try to make their way out. I'll let you know if we make contact and when they exit.
05:51
Okay, we have a barricade right now.
06:00
We have any detectors that can come out here and start blocking Kemper for us?
06:05
5-6-7-5 and 4 and 4 will be heading that way soon.
06:17
5, 2 and 16 will also hope...
06:30
Thanks.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment; message received, understood, or affirmative.
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Location mentioned:
Near Kemper Rd, Shaker Heights, OH 44120
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