Mansfield, Ohio Police Stand-Off Goes Into Day Two
Mansfield, Ohio police have been embroiled in an armed stand-off on Randall Road for of David Parker more than 24 hours. Since Monday morning, shots have been fired from inside the home three times.
Shortly before 9 a.m. the Mansfield police were in the process of attempting to send a robot into the David Parker residence to determine if the man was still alive. A day earlier at just about the same time, a Columbia Gas workers knocked on Parker’s door and the Ohio man came to greet him carrying a semi-automatic rifle and threatened to shoot, police say.
Mansfield Law Director John Spon told the media that efforts to contact the homeowner’s brother, Jonathon Parker, have been made. The sibling reportedly lives in the Philippines with his wife and so far the attempts have failed. Spon also said that while he has “no direct knowledge” regarding the basement of the Randall Road home, he has received secondhand information that the underground portion of the structure is also a bunker. The local official also reportedly described Parker as a “heavily armed survivalist.”
“He’s had a history of some involvement assaults and a few other things. There’s a question of maybe mental health issues,” Spon said when speaking with the press about the armed police stand-off in Mansfield.
Mansfield Police Department vehicles have reportedly been hit by rifle fire from inside Dave Parker’s home. During the Ohio police stand-off Parker has allegedly moved into various positions around the inside of his home and fired a semi-automatic rile “with an intent to kill officers,” Spon added.
@Tino10TV is live outside a Mansfield home where man has been barricaded inside for 24 hours http://t.co/BudYa6kDLa pic.twitter.com/PT16Pn9wKs
— 10TV.com (@10TV) April 28, 2015
Robots have already been used during the Mansfield police stand-off but one was reportedly “disabled” by Parker’s shooting. Police officers have been “spraying” the home with water in what Spon deemed the “safest, most pragmatic approach to resolve” the armed stand-off.
“He’s just really weird. He’s crazy He walks around this neighborhood like he’s going hiking with a backpack and a knife on his side and he talks to himself,” Frank Gonzales, a neighbor who said his family has “tussled” with Parker before, said.
Local law enforcement officers are reportedly still attempting to establish a line of communication with Dave Parker. The Mansield police believe that the homeowner is the only person inside the residence.
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