By Allison Manning The Patriot Ledger
Posted Jun 25, 2008 @ 08:07 AM
MILTON —
SWAT team members descended upon a Berlin Avenue house Monday evening after a man who was staying at the house said he was going to have a “surprise” for the police and would torch the quiet Milton neighborhood.
Milton police called on the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council and SWAT at about 8 p.m. for backup. At 9:30 p.m., about 50 officers surrounded 22 Berlin Ave., including police service dog teams.
Milton Deputy Chief Paul Nolan said they were unsure if the 35-year-old man, who had been screaming “kill” and “fire” from a bedroom window, was armed.
The man had barricaded himself in the house, covering doors and windows, and did not respond to phone calls from the officers. After hours of trying to coax the man outside, at 1:15 a.m. a less-than-lethal wooden dowel was fired into a bedroom window. The man began obeying the officer’s commands, spoken over a public address system outside the house. He left the home and was taken to the Carney Hospital psychiatric unit. No weapon was found in the house.
“It’s always a concern when dealing with someone who is mentally unstable that they’re going to try suicide by cop,” Nolan said.
Milton police had been at the residence Sunday evening, when the man had been yelling out of a bedroom window, and he told the homeowner later in the evening that if the police returned, he would “have a surprise for them” and would have the dead-end neighborhood “go up in flames.”
According to the homeowner, the man had been acting erratically, screaming and neglecting his hygiene.
Florence MacLellan, who lives next door, said she had officers in her backyard and under her deck, surrounding the residence.
“They kept telling him no one wanted to hurt him, asking him to rattle a shade to let them know that he was all right,” she said. “The men were extremely patient.”
A judge granted a mental health emergency restraining order before police arrived Monday evening. The order was extended for a year in Quincy District Court on Tuesday.
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