Police: Off-duty Fife cop shoots, kills Orting neighbor armed with rifle
Jul 31, 2013, 6:47 AM | Updated: 3:25 pm
Police say an armed man with mental health issues showed up at the Orting home of an off-duty Fife police officer Tuesday night.
It appears the man had made calls earlier that he was either involved in a shooting or was going to be involved in a shooting, according to Pierce County Detective Ed Troyer. He made “some other rants and raves. And he contacted some neighbors and they said he was acting strangely.”
The officer called 911 for help, but police say the man then fired a rifle and tried to ram his car into the officer’s home.
“When the Fife police officer told him to leave, he revved up his car and displayed what appeared to be a rifle,” says Troyer.
When the officer returned fire, he shot the man who then died at the scene.
The man lived in the same neighborhood as the officer.
Police have been reaching out to the man’s past girlfriends and people he’s threatened in to make sure they’re OK. Troyer says they want to make sure no one else was hurt, but at this point, there is nothing else for anyone in the neighborhood to fear.
KIRO Radio’s Val Stouffer and MyNorthwest.com’s Alyssa Kleven contributed to this report.
