All right, good day.
I'm executive assistant Chief
Larry Satterwhite with me is
executive Assistant Chief Jim Jones.
And commander Hassick over
our Southwest division.
We're on the scene here
at 2401 W Belfort at the
Scottish Right Center.
Where we received a call of a disturbance.
Still gathering information,
but I'll tell you what we know so far.
At 10:06 we received a call to this
location of a disturbance with a weapon.
At this location all officers arrived
with it by at 10:10 within 4 minutes.
While our officers were arriving
on the on the location,
we had updated information that there
were shots fired inside the building.
Officers immediately went in
and right as they went in,
they engaged a male who would
turn out to be our suspect from a
distance on the upstairs landing,
and, once determined,
very quickly that he was our suspect,
went into initial conversation with him.
That mail was not armed with a firearm
that we could tell at this time.
But then again,
from the distance we did not know
what he had in his possession.
The mail seemed erratic as the officers
began negotiations that we were not sure of.
What if we had hostages in
the building or not?
We we very quickly confirmed that
we did have two male hostages with
the suspect behind them in a room.
You're in the course of that.
That conversation that negotiation
with the suspect.
He released one of the males.
He is a 91 year old male that works here.
He was injured in the hand.
He was released and came out.
Not knowing the condition of the
other hostage in the in the room.
We pressed our officers pressed on
the location and on the suspect.
And once he saw that we were pressing,
he surrendered and we took him into custody.
Our other hostage, thankfully,
was not injured at all.
So with that our our suspect that was
that we have in custody right now.
Is a male approximately 30 years of age.
He is,
he appears to be of Middle Eastern descent,
but we don't have that confirmed,
and we're going to have to do the
additional information to figure out,
you know more about him and why he was here.
We don't even know why he came to this
location. We did know we do know.
What we do know, from speaking to our
our witnesses and hostages on the scene,
is that he arrived here several
minutes before the call went out and
he was trying to get in to to talk
to them about their belief systems.
They were not allowing him into the
objective because of his behavior.
He circled the building and
then actually broke a window,
and that's how he got into the objective.
And then from there they were
calling right away,
calling in one calling for the police,
which we did respond.
And then I've already told you
how we took him into custody.
So with that I will I do not know what
charge we will have on them at this time,
that is to be determined.
For the digital learning's office,
and we'll fill you in on that
information to update that later
with with whatever we determine.
So with that I will go to questions.
So he was armed with a a screwdriver.
Is what he ended up being
armed with we believe now.
That what was thought to be shots
fired was him actually breaking
the window to break into the build.
How many people were in
the building at that time?
I don't have the the exact number.
It was at least four.
We know of the caller was in
another office at a female caller,
so and then of course one of the
leadership of of the business here
was there and then of course our two
hostages that I've already talked about.
It happened actually right
towards the front upstairs,
so that's our once.
They went in to resolve
whatever was going on.
They immediately engaged
our suspect there.
91 years old. 91 year old
male injured in the hand.
We don't know that yet. Not injure.
About 65.
Yes, yes they were both working inside.
It's on the other side of the building,
not visible from the street here,
but he went around back and broke
through a window to come in.
I don't know. I don't know, possibly.
You know it's the Scottish right center.
I don't have a lot more beyond that so.
I'd like to follow up with
you on that when you said.
So when they engage with the suspect,
we didn't know what we were going
into and we honestly didn't know that
we had a hostage situation and the
actual shooter or what we went in.
But so when they went in when they
first saw him, they immediately started
with voice commands and he responded.
So there was at that point we're
still trying to find out what exactly
is going on and what we have.
So that's the first engagement.
Obviously our officers went in, you know,
not know what we had their weapons.
On giving out voice commands,
trying and trying to determine what we have,
do we have a second person in the building
that was a potentially a bad actor?
We didn't know,
so there was a lot to be determined and
we were still trying to figure it out.
But again, when we first engaged him,
he was not armed with a firearm that
they could tell when they first saw him.
Did the.
We believe so, but we're still
trying to determine that.
There was a bit of a physical
conflict between our hostages
and the suspect upstairs,
so we don't know how our our,
our complainant, our 91 year old victim,
how he got injured in the hand.
We're still trying to figure that out.
Pardon what kind of.
Well, they I think our second hostage
picked up a chair against him.
But that'll be in the report.
Again, all that I know of are two
upstairs in that specific area.
I do know that one of the
executors of the facility was here,
not in that location,
and I do know that we have a caller,
a female that was not in that specific area.
He surrendered as we pressed upon him.
No, nothing yet,
but the investigation is still early.
We're still going to.
We're doing a full search of the
building so that may change, you know,
but for now we have nothing other than
the screwdriver that was in his hand.
And the tool which was a tire tool
that he used to break the window in
the 1st place to get into the build.
No, I don't know. Probably said yes.
Any other questions?
OK, thank you.