Tacoma homeowner: Police handled fatal shooting with professionalism
Dec 1, 2016, 6:57 AM | Updated: 7:21 am
The woman who owns the home where a Tacoma officer and his suspected killer were both shot says the police department handled the situation with professionalism.
“I don’t want to hear anything about black lives matter, because all lives matter … I want to say the Tacoma Police Department handled this matter with such professionalism, despite own of their own being shot,” Kristi Croskey told KIRO 7.
Police: Suspect in Tacoma officer’s death shot and killed
Croskey, who attends church with the suspect, stopped by the house to pick up some things and was inside when the officer was shot. She says the officers answering the domestic violence call did everything right.
“When you make poor choices and the response is someone being killed … I want you to know the Tacoma Police Department did anything and everything they could to protect and serve,” Croskey said. “They wanted to protect the life of him, his family, and anyone else who was involved in this matter.
“I do not want to hear anything about the Tacoma Police Department did wrong; the Lakewood department did wrong. I want people to start taking a long inventory of themselves and seeing what they did wrong.
The officer who was killed has not been identified, other than he was 45 years old and was an officer for 17 years.
The officer was killed during an overnight standoff that ended around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. The suspect was killed by a Pierce County deputy.
Pierce County Sheriff’s Deputy Ed Troyer said during the standoff, the suspect was using the children, an 8-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, as a shield and was making threats against the them.
At one point, officers were able to separate one of the children from the suspect, KIRO 7 reports.
Troyer said while the other child was still with the suspect, a Pierce County SWAT deputy was able to take a shot at the suspect, firing one round that killed him.
Both children are safe and unhurt.
The suspect, who has not been identified, had multiple weapons in the house, according to Troyer.
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