ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 45-year-old former Juneau Police Department lieutenant was charged with attempted murder and seven other felonies after firing a gun at officers responding to a call of an armed man threatening to harm himself.
Troy Wilson was taken into custody early Sunday after a standoff that lasted more than four and a half hours with no injuries to Wilson or police officers.
Police spokeswoman Cindee Brown-Mills said the suspect fired about 75 rounds.
"We're very glad that it turned out that nobody was hurt," Brown-Mills said.
The incident began Saturday night. Police took a call at 10:13 p.m. from a woman who said an intoxicated man had a gun and was threatening to harm himself.
The suspect also told the woman he would shoot if he saw any police officers approach the home near the Mendenhall Glacier about 13 miles north of downtown Juneau. Brown-Mills said she could not release the relationship of the woman to the suspect.
The woman fled and took refuge at a neighbor's home. The neighbor called a few minutes after the initial call and said the woman was safe at his home.
Police drove to the home and surrounded it, waiting for crisis negotiators and a SWAT team, and Wilson began shooting at officers and vehicles, police said.
Rounds were fired in bunches, Brown-Mills said, and not all at once. A police patrol car was struck six to eight times.
Brown-Mills said she did not know of homes were hit or the type of weapon used by the suspect.
Officers told neighbors to evacuate or stay inside their homes.
Members of Juneau's crisis intervention team eventually spoke to Wilson. The negotiators included officers and one civilian. Wilson surrendered at 2:49 a.m.
The former lieutenant turned in his resignation to the police department late last year, Brown-Mills said. She did not have an exact date.
Wilson was charged with first-degree attempted murder, an unclassified felony. He also was charged with seven other felonies: weapons misconduct, four counts of assault involving a police officer, domestic violence assault and criminal mischief.