A retired police detective had killing police officers on his mind and wanted to goad them into a firefight that would result in his death and those of officers, the city's police chief said Monday in defending his department's decision initially to "disengage" hours after crisis counselors and a SWAT team came to the scene.
A man who allegedly locked himself inside his Pleasant Hill home, shot his wife through a closed door and refused to talk to police negotiators has been left.
Police in Pleasant Hill have guns drawn as they try to communicate with a man barricaded inside a home. Officials say the man allegedly shot and wounded his wife Thursday evening.
A husband who allegedly shot his wife through a door to their garage, was still inside his home Friday, posting odd messages on X, while Pleasant Hill police tried for hours to get him to come outside.