A man armed with a realistic-looking Airsoft gun alarmed drivers and police, causing chaos in a crowded parking lot of a Bellingham shopping area.
Officers recovered what turned out to be a realistic-looking Sig Sauer Airsoft gun, according to police.BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A man armed with a realistic-looking Airsoft gun alarmed drivers and police and caused chaos in a crowded parking lot of a Bellingham shopping area.
At 2:30 p.m., police received calls about a man in the same area brandishing a handgun in the air and at people in passing cars. Officers arrived and ordered the man to put his hands up, but he ran toward the stores in the crowded parking lot armed with what appeared to be a handgun.At one point, the man ran up to a truck and pointed the gun at its driver, according to police.
One Bellingham officer turned a corner to find the suspect facing the officer’s car while pointing the gun directly at the officer. The suspect then resumed running and hid between parked cars until officers fired beanbag rounds at him. He then dropped the gun and got onto the ground after he was struck by the rounds.
The man, identified as 27-year-old Kelton T. Lane of Bellingham, was arrested and taken to the hospital after a beanbag round re-injured a pre-existing wound from a previous incident with another law enforcement agency.
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