Police evacuated part of a Belltown apartment building Monday night and called in a SWAT team to arrest a suspect, who threatened to “put a bullet” in a man on the street.
Around 9:45pm, a man and a woman were standing at 1st avenue and Eagle Street, when the suspect—who lives in the same apartment building as the woman—walked up to them.
According to the victims, the suspect told the male victim he was going to “put a bullet in [his] brain,” and then pulled a handgun out of his pocket and pointed it at the male victim.
When the male victim took off running, the suspect chased after him shouting “if I catch you out here I’m gonna blow your brains out.”
Finally, a SWAT team arrived at the scene and used a “distraction device”—which emits a loud boom—to coax the suspect out of his apartment.