MIDLAND, Wash. \u2014 The Pierce County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Pierce County Force Investigation Team (PCFIT) are looking for a wanted suspect who was involved in an incident with deputies early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
On May 3, around 2 a.m., a deputy with Pierce County found a man slumped over in a vehicle at 72nd St E. and 9th Ave. Ct. E. in Midland.<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office said it identified the man as someone with multiple felony warrants, including second-degree assault, eluding and escape from community custody. <\/p>\n
While the person was slumped over, deputies positioned their patrol vehicles around it to prevent him from escape when he woke up.<\/p>\n
However, when the man did wake up, he began ramming the patrol vehicles, according to PCFIT. <\/p>\n
Deputies said he was able to ram an escape route with his vehicle, and was able to get out, despite having deflated tires.<\/p>\n
According to PCFIT, he drove at a deputy, and shots were fired. <\/p>\n
No deputies were injured and the man continued his escape. <\/p>\n
A few minutes later, the suspect vehicle was located, crashed, running, and abandoned at a home on 85th St. E. <\/p>\n
Multiple people called 911 to say that a man had shown up on their property asking for help and appeared to have blood on him. His description matched the suspect, deputies said. <\/p>\n
According to PCFIT, that person matching the description of the suspect had broken into a few homes and left after being confronted.<\/p>\n
Despite an extensive three-and-a-half hour track with K9s and drones, the suspect was not located. <\/p>\n
If you live in the area, keep your doors and vehicles locked.<\/p>\n
PCFIT will be taking over this investigation per standard protocol with any officer-involved shooting. <\/p>\n
KIRO 7 has reached out for a suspect description. <\/p>\n
Call 911 if you see anything suspicious. <\/p>\n
\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDLAND, Wash. \u2014 The Pierce County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Pierce County Force Investigation Team (PCFIT) are looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-621723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}