After 8-Hour Standoff with SWAT, Fugitive Shoots K9: Police Scramble
Shortly after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, police arrived at a home in Greenville County, South Carolina, where an armed man was holed up after shooting at his mother several times. Thankfully his mother had made it out of the…
Shortly after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Police arrived at a home in Greenville County, South Carolina, where an armed man was holed up after shooting at his mother several times.
Thankfully his mother had made it out of the house and to a neighbor’s house, where she called the Police.
In the 8-hour standoff that followed, authorities used a variety of methods to try to reach the man, later identified as 44-year-old Anthony Shay Hawthorne, according to Fox News.
“We knew there were several guns in the house,” the sheriff later said, according to WHNS-TV. “We felt like he was probably a threat to himself at that point so we thought we would just wait them out so we deployed several tactics at that time to try to get them to come out.”
Gas didn’t work to draw Hawthorne out. Robots didn’t work, either.
But K9 Nikos did.
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