Sacramento, Calif.
Sacramento police release video of officer shooting sword-wielding man holding hostages
the sacramento police department on tuesday released video of a swat team officer shooting a man wielding a sword as he held his wife and children hostage inside his home.
The police shooting occurred aug. 10 During a rescue at the sacramento home in the 100 block of dragonfly circle, after several hours of officers trying to convinced the armed man to come out and peacefully surrender.
A member of the sacramento police swat team shot and wounded isaiah gardner as he held the sword in a raised position next to his wife and children in a bedroom, according to the police department. Gardner was taken by ambulance to a hospital.
Police said gardner on tuesday was in stable condition and continuing to receive medical treatment. He will be booked on suspicion of false imprisonment at the sacramento county jail once he is released from the hospital.
Shortly before 1 a.M. Aug. 10, Patrol officers were called to the dragonfly circle home, just north of san juan road in the gateway west neighborhood that sits northwest of the interstate 5 and interstate 80 junction.
A male suspect, later identified as gardner, was reportedly armed with a sword and had barricaded himself in the home with his wife and children. The wife said she was not being allowed to leave with her children.
Patrol officers tried for several hours to make contact with someone inside the home. Officers from the department’s crisis negotiation and swat teams were called to the scene. Negotiators were on the phone with occupants in the home for over two hours “as they worked towards a peaceful resolution,” police said in a news release
