PULLMAN, Wash. — Pullman Police said one man is dead after a SWAT situation that forced a shelter-in-place near Washington State University overnight.
Police were called to apartments on the 1000 block of Latah around 8:37 p.m. on Wednesday night where they say a man in his 30s was threatening to kill his roommates. The two roommates were safely removed from the apartment.
Police said the suspect barricaded himself inside the apartment and fired several shots. Police evacuated other people in the area. Police said the suspect's behavior continued to escalate and he was shot by a SWAT team member.
The suspect was found dead inside the apartment.
Wendy Schuller, a mother of a student who lives in the apartments, said her son first heard shots fired around 2:15 a.m. on Thursday.
"For the next hour or so they heard intermittent shots fired. I think when they were evacuated he had counted 20 shots that he heard fired," she told KREM 2 News.
Schuller said her son was evacuated and taken to Beasley Coliseum. She shared a photo with KREM 2 News of people who had been evacuated from the apartment, standing in the street, waiting to be moved away from the area. As of Thursday morning, her son has not yet been allowed back into his apartment.
"This doesn’t happen in Pullman," Schuller said. "None of it is what you expect and what [is] supposed to be happening in student housing."
WSU sent out an alert to students just after 3:00 a.m. The alert noted that a SWAT team was "actively working on the south side of campus." Students were told to shelter in place until further notice. Police were on the scene on Latah Street, across State Route 270 from the WSU Pullman campus.
About an hour and a half later, WSU sent out a second alert stating Pullman police had resolved the situation, which they described as being adjacent to the WSU Pullman campus.
Police have declared an all-clear, according to the notice from WSU. The alert states that normal campus operations are once again resuming.
Washington State Patrol is now taking over the investigation.
Here is the full alert from WSU:
The Pullman Police Department has resolved the situation that occurred earlier this morning and have declared an ALL CLEAR. This incident took place on Latah Street, which is across State Route 270 from the WSU Pullman campus. WSU Pullman will return to normal operations. Students, faculty and staff should report to campus as scheduled.
WSU said Main Street (SR 270) between Spring Street and Bishop Boulevard is closed for the investigation.
This is a developing story. KREM 2 News will update this article as more information becomes available.
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