CHEYENNE — A man who has reportedly threatened “suicide by cop” on multiple occasions held police in a 2.5-hour standoff late Friday night and into early Saturday morning.
The man, who hasn’t been identified, was taken into custody shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday after police and the Cheyenne Police/Laramie County Joint SWAT Team responded to the apartment building at 921 E. 17thStreet, the Cheyenne Police Department reports.
Officers “responded to the Casa Grande apartments … for a reported domestic aggravated battery involving a firearm,” the CPD reports.
“Shortly after CPD officers arrived, the suspect barricaded himself in the back bedroom of an apartment,” the agency continues.
The SWAT team and crisis negotiators were brought in and the area was secured.
During the standoff, scanner traffic relayed to police that the man had attempted “suicide by cop” on multiple occasions.
No injuries to law enforcement or the suspect were reported by CPD.
What The Video Shows
The standoff was livestreamed on the Fubar on Patrol YouTube channel.
The channel’s creator, a man named Brett, patrols the city overnight on weekends following the dispatch scanner and livestreaming events.
For this standoff, he was parked right outside the apartment building with a clear view of the response, which included a K-9, the SWAT Team and what appeared to be an officer using a headset to operate a drone inside the building.
After more than two hours, the video shows a shirtless man with large tattoos on his torso being taken out of the building in handcuffs and placed into a police cruiser.
“They are putting him in a squad car, guys,” Brett says on the livestream. “It’s over.”
Greg Johnson can be reached at greg@cowboystatedaily.com.
