Man with suicide note on shirt wields knives at Bremerton officers

BREMERTON, Wash. — Bremerton police were able to peacefully arrest a knife-wielding man who they confronted in the department’s secured lot.

Officers say the 35-year-old man, who had scaled a fence and was hiding behind a vehicle, approached two officers with his hands in his pockets just before midnight Thursday.

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He was wearing a shirt with writing on it that was later determined to be a suicide note.

When the officers asked the man to remove his hands from his pockets, he pullet out two large kitchen knives and continued approaching the officers, according to a news release from Bremerton police.

Both officers drew their weapons and told the man to get down on the ground at gunpoint.  The man complied and was taken into custody.

The man, who police say was high on methamphetamine, told officers he did not have the courage to stab himself and wanted the officers to shoot him.  He said he had planned to rush officers and force them to shoot him.

The man was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation and then booked into Kitsap County Jail for investigation of burglary and second-degree assault.

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